Delivery device and mtehod for verifiable no-error delivery by a delivery station

ABSTRACT

A delivery device and method for delivering without error one of merchandise and service item of an order received by e-provider from a building dweller, said item is stored in a storage facility of a delivery station located within the building and distant including station server connected to e-provider server via a network and a storage device controlling the storage facility, the delivery device comprising a CPU, a memory, operating keys, indicators, display touch screen for identifying the stored item, the order and the dweller, at least one of barcode reader and RFID reader for providing error-free pickup, gathering and delivery, and a transceiver for communicating the delivery including updates and details of the gathering and the delivering processes including acknowledging of the delivery through the network in real time.

FIELD OF INVENTION

The present invention relates to the propagation of combination ofanalog and digital signals via a single twisted pair carrying DC powerto appliances such as a dedicated shopping terminal, a video interphonemonitor, a set top box and a cable television including an e-shoppingcircuit and programs.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The current or the prevailing e-commerce is operated in a given patternand processes enabling buyers to search for a supplier through a knownsearch engine, select a known or an unknown website that appears to be apresentation corresponding to the intended shopping, be it for servicesor merchandise.

Once a potential buyer identifies a web of an e-shop and did find theitems of interest, he has to go into next process of identifyinghimself, his address and his credit card, before he can materialize apurchase.

This process is a frustrating process that does not fit a repeat dailyor weekly shopping for immediate deliveries of for example groceryproducts.

For people needing an immediate deliveries the common process describedabove cannot offer a solution if one needs in a morning a milk forbreakfast, such ordering will take too long to be processed anddelivered, even if the e-shop is a convenient store located nearby theresidence of the e-buyer and does provide for local deliveries.

To help improve the process such nearby shops that provide deliveriesmay store the details of repeated neighborhood buyers and the buyerswill introduce the shop's URL icon onto their PC's desk top, for animmediate recall of the shop's website. In turn the shop will providethe buyer with an access password, identifying the buyer and his creditcard as recorded in the shop server. Such setup makes the orderingprocess faster and simpler.

Similar recording and storing of customer's data are offered by largeshops, supermarkets, and department stores for improving the process ofe-shopping to a repeat buyers. Such handling improves upon thee-shopping processes but that does not provide the basics needed totransform the grocery shopping and deliveries for example, into anefficient process.

The e-shopping first hurdle is that in all the above describede-shopping processes and setups the buyer has to surf the shop websiteby selecting products or services through pages displayed onto his PC,smart phone or iPad screen, fed from the shop server via the Internet orother IP networks, for selecting his choices through the shop's server.

Each such shop server has its own architecture, colors, styles,operating systems, programming and processing method that the e-buyershave to learn and follow. Thus even though the e-buyer detailed data isstored in the e-shop server, the proprietary programming and thedifferent shopping processes for each individual e-shop extends the timespent to shop via a given e-shop server.

Further when the whole shopping cannot be supplied by a single shop andmust be divided into two or more separate e-shops or e-serviceproviders, such e-shopping calls for a very attentive and time consuminge-shopping process. Thus a combined shopping for groceries, such asextending the milk example given above, to shop for milk and cerealsfrom two separate e-shops is a complex operation. Ordering two itemsfrom two different convenient stores in the morning for a breakfast willtake too long time to order and deliver, while the buyer wants andexpects the delivery promptly.

Other methods and apparatuses for e-shopping for services andmerchandise merged into a closed circuit shopping systems operating in aregistered closed circuit are disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,603,842,6,940,957, 7,461,012, 8,117,076 and in many corresponding patents issuedand pending in other countries. Method and structure for simplifiede-shopping coding is disclosed in U.S. application Ser. No. 13/599,275.

The disclosed closed circuit e-shopping is provided via shoppingterminals such as a video interphone monitor of a video interphonesystem and via shopping circuits of a cable TV system, an antenna TVsystem and a dedicated e-shopping terminal system. The referencedapplication Ser. No. 13/599,275 covers the coding for the e-shoppingsignals processed by the shopping circuits referred to above.

The basic or the fundamental difference between the two e-commercemethods, i.e., the prevailing e-shopping and the closed circuite-shopping system, disclosed in the above referenced US patents is:

i. the prevailing e-shoppings are processed and completed through theshop's server, on line.

ii. The closed circuit e-shoppings are processed and completed throughthe shopping terminal on its own, off line.

This is made possible by the installing a pre-designed andpre-configured shopping programs and content, selected from a group ofregistered e-shops, and by loading and storing such programs and contentinto the memory of the e-shopping circuits of the e-shopping terminal.The stored content covers pre-configured or pre-selected products, asselected by a dweller, for a recall from a memory of one of thededicated shopping terminals or from the memory of one of the TVsreferred to above or from the memory of the video interphone monitors.

Thereby, the close circuit shopping is fundamentally different from theprevailing shopping by providing an instant recall of stored data,patterned through a template into a standard shopping select display.This enables an instant habitual shopping, through a habituallyrecognized pattern for selection of products and services.

The display of categories, groups and shops are all patterned viaidentical templates that are individually assembled and installed intothe shopping circuit memory of each individual residence, on the basisof shops, categories and groups selected by each dweller. The dwellerdecides and selects the categories or group of product and/or servicesand from which shops he will buy from. The selected shops, categoriesand groups will be loaded and stored into the memory of the individualshopping terminal. All others are excluded but can be installed into thememory at later date, if the dweller changes his mind.

The closed circuit shopping apparatuses of the present invention areselected from a group comprising video interphone monitors, dedicatedshopping terminals, TV, cable TV and/or TV and cable TV accessories suchas set top box, shopping box, adaptor box, cable TV box, antenna box,converter box and/or a server that serves the whole building or thewhole neighborhood via a local network and/or via the internalcommunication lines, TV cable lines or TV antenna lines.

The shopping terminals of the closed circuit shopping include thehardware and programs, pre-installed with a pre-defined shoppingprograms and content, for enabling to select and order through thestored programs as selected by the dweller, with no time waste by surfand search via search engines and via variety of shop servers. Suchpre-programmed close circuit shopping provides the infrastructure toinitiate prompt deliveries as programmed.

The prompt deliveries are provided via delivery station or deliveryterminals, disclosed in the reference application Ser. No. 13/599,275,to be inside the building or within the neighborhood.

The searches for e-services and e-merchandise are carried through thedisplays generated by the installed program pages, using the displays ofa video interphone monitor, a dedicated shopping terminal, a TV or acable TV to process the shopping.

The introduction of a complete shopping program and content into theshopping terminals transforms the shopping terminals into aself-assembled privately owned e-shopping mall inside each residence,office or business, or it can be a virtual neighborhood shopping mall ofa whole building and/or the whole neighborhood, if so desired by theneighborhood.

Such closed circuit e-shopping for products and/or services mandatesthat all the shopping terminals of the system must be updated at alltimes with each and every product and service particulars.

The pages of the current prevailing shopping servers, the selectingicons, the offered items, their prices, the conditions and any otherparticulars of the shopping process and terms, including theavailabilities of services or products are commonly designed andprogrammed by website design professionals, knowledgeable in thestructuring of website pages.

Supermarkets, for example, offering fresh produce, such as greenvegetable or dairy products will change daily or weekly their pages toaccommodate varying prices and availability because of seasons,locations and transportation consideration etc. The changes are ongoingcontinuous to the given pages of the shop server or to a group ofservers used by larger supermarkets or chains of shops.

Such professionally amended pages, prepared internally by a given shopor a chain, do not fit the need to add, amend or replace e-shoppingpages of a vast spread shopping terminals in large number of residencesor businesses in different locations and places.

It will be prohibitively costly to design specific pages for a givenconsumer or to a group of consumers, be it one or more residencebuildings or other group of potential shoppers. It will take long toconfigure and design and will be very complex to download and/or updatepages to all the residence's individual shopping terminals. It will bean enormous task to download and/or upgrade vast individual programs andpages tailored to the many individuals or group preferences, be itregularly or randomly.

The referenced U.S. application Ser. No. 13/599,275 teaches a simple todesign, add, amend or replace pages or a portion of page, such as aprice of a single product included in a page, or the removal of aproduct from a page when it is sold out. The updating process must beprovided in an easy to learn, configure, operate and install concept andat a low cost.

Another existing problem for a closed circuit e-shopping by a largenumber of tenants of a large residential or office building is thesecurity of the transaction and the prevention of cyber theft,particularly from within the environment of the closed circuit itself.

Yet, another problem is the reliability of the shopping network in abuilding that is based on routers and switches cascaded throughout thebuilding floors, via an IP local LAN network such as Ethernet. Routersof large systems installed in communication or electrical cabinets ofstaircases and entrance halls of large buildings, or mounted in acommunication boxes on poles and similar are accessible to cyber theft.

Further a failure of one such router or a switch, may cut a wholesection of a building from the LAN or from a building server and cutmany shopping terminals from the shopping process, or from the updatingprocess through the day or night.

To overcome security and reliability potential risks it is preferable tonetwork such large complexes in a star topology, directly to a centraldistributor or a matrix of the system, that is securely installed in aprotected surrounding.

The problems with such star connections are the cabling and theirlimitation in distance and speed. Fiber optic cables can be onesolution, but fiber optical cabling, connectors and terminals areexpensive and require expertise. Twist pair via such cables known asCAT5 provide low cost solution and are well handled and installed byelectricians, but are limited in length and speed.

A solution to use a twist pair or pairs to connect the shoppingterminals in a star to a central distributor or matrix or a specificdesigned router or switch is needed. One such solution is disclosed inU.S. Pat. No. 5,923,363 and in the above other referenced US patents andthe U.S. application Ser. No. 13/599,275.

The important issue is of course the speed, that must be fast enough toupdate the many shopping terminals at random and periodically,propagated to distances such as up to 200 m (660 ft) or more. This isnot achievable via a standard Ethernet IP wired network, using thecommonly installed CAT5 cables.

There are many other instances in which high speed communications via aCAT5 and similar network cables need to be extended for propagating acombination of signals, such as analog audio and video including varietyof digital signals, but the cable length limitations prevent the usecommon wires, and mandates combination of cables, such as coax cablesshielded wires and/or optical fiber cables, requiring differentinterfaces, adaptors and connectors, all of which are technicallycomplex to configure and install, and moreover, are expensive andrequire highly skilled experts to install.

Solutions are needed to propagate two way information signals comprisingaudio, video, data, control, codes, alarm and emergency in starconfiguration to include data loading at high speed to upgrade andupdate e-shopping programs including particulars of products andservices into distances above the limits of 100 m of the CAT5 cable orvia a single twisted pair cable, or a single twisted pair of multitwisted pair cable such as the CAT5, including the feeding of DC powervia the same single pair or separate single pair.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The objectives of the present invention are apparatuses and methods forpropagating two way combinations of information signals including thepropagation of audio, video, data, control, alarm, and emergency signalsbetween a central signal processing or distributing or routing unittermed main router or main unit or matrix unit.

The terms tenant, dweller, user or shopper hereafter refers to ane-shopper or an e-buyer that search for and/or orders services ormerchandise via a shopping terminal and/or defines, selects andrestricts the services and merchandise programs to be loaded into hisshopping terminal to his conveniences and desire.

The terms dwelling, residence and apartment refers to any single unit ofa residential and/or commercial building be it for living, office orbusiness.

The term shopping terminal hereafter and in the claims refers to a videointerphone monitor, a dedicated shopping terminal, a cable TV, aninteractive TV, a TV set, a set top box, a shopping box, an antennaadaptor box, a satellite adaptor box, a cable TV box and any othersimilar box and combinations thereof that are connecting at least one TVprograms provider to a television or cable television set.

The shopping terminal comprising an operating display screen, a memoryfor storing shopping programs, content and other shopping services andmerchandise particulars and a CPU for enabling the operating andchoosing e-shopping to include services or merchandise or both. Theshopping terminal can be operated via a built-in operating displayscreen and touch icons, by an associated display screen, by voice, byremote control devices or by movements of hands or other parts, such asthe eyes of the dweller.

The terms main router, main unit, matrix unit, router, matrix and switchhereafter and in the claims refers to an intersecting unit for at leastone of processing, selecting, distributing, routing, switching,temporary storing and buffering information signals between a server ofat least one building and the internal communication lines of saidbuilding.

The term information signal hereafter and in the claims refers to anyindividual signal selected from a group comprising audio signal, videosignal, data signal, code signal, control signal, alarm signal,emergency signal and to combinations thereof, propagated one way,bidirectional and a combination thereof.

The term e-shopping signal hereafter and in the claims may comprise anyof the signals of the information signals individually and any of thecombinations thereof one way, bidirectional and a combination of one wayand bidirectional signals of a processed and/or completed orderincluding modulated signals such as ASK (Amplitude Shift Keying), FSK(Frequency Shift Keying) or any other modulated signals for loading,upgrading, updating, adding, modifying and/or deleting or downloadingsignals pertaining to the e-shopping programs and content.

The main, main router or matrix unit connects and/or links one orplurality of shopping terminals, one or plurality of entry panels of abuilding, one or plurality of local concierge stations, local guardstations, local security stations of local building and/or of a wholeneighborhood, including local stations of office buildings and similarlocal service facilities, distinctly characterized by being directlyconnected or linked to the matrix for selectively communicatinginformation signal, via the matrix, with any of the stations and/or anyof the shopping terminals.

The term server in the following description and in the claims refers toa well known computing server for providing information stored in itsone or more memories and for processing received e-commerce orders via anetwork such as the Internet.

The term stand-alone server is to a serve with built-in at least onememory containing the entire programs for operating with a closedcircuit e-commerce with other servers of the closed circuit, and withdata pertaining the services, product, information or other tasks theserver is to perform within the closed circuit e-commerce.

The term “server and a cloud computing” refers to a server servicesprovided by the well known cloud computing such as a cloud computingservices and memory offered by Amazon or Microsoft or IBM.

The term “local” or “locally connected” defines the connectionparticulars and not the physical location of a local concierge ore-concierge and other recited station, unless the term local isspecifically recited or identified with a given location, and with thestation physical position, place or the distance or distances arespecifically recited vis-à-vis any of the other stations, the matrix andthe shopping terminals.

A “local” delivery station or “local” delivery terminal or an e-shopthat are connected via a network to the building server, is not regardedas “locally” connected, even though it is physically inside a buildingor building complexes.

The term “distant” refers to any delivery station or shop that isphysically located outside the building or the building complex. Theterm distant is not a reference of measurement in meter, Km or miles anddoes not relate to how the delivery station is connected to the network.

The shopping terminals of the present invention, disclosed in thereferenced US patents and the corresponding patents issued in manycountries, comprising shopping programs, including products, prices,invoicing and payments, delivery particulars and other material andprocess data pertaining the e-shopping and e-services. The programsstored in each shopping terminal are limited to a selection by eachdweller individually.

Such individually selected data must be updated regularly to eachshopping terminal, be it at given designated times regularly, at randomand periodically. This mandates the providing of the needed power toallow the processing of update data by the matrix and each of theshopping terminals connected to the matrix individually.

The referenced U.S. Pat. No. 5,923,363 discloses a method for poweringeach video interphone monitor via the communication line extendedbetween the monitor and the central unit by feeding a regulated currentto a rechargeable battery, associated with the video interphone monitor.

The advantage of feeding regulated current via the communication lineconnecting the matrix with the shopping terminal is obvious, controlledDC current can be fed along with the information signal via the samesingle twisted pair, which offers substantial advantages, such as costand simplicity.

Accordingly another object of the present invention is to provide themethod and apparatuses for propagating two way information signalsincluding high speed propagation for updating and loading shopping dataparticulars, content and programs via a single twisted pair that alsofeeds controlled DC current to the shopping terminal.

The power fed via the transmission line or the twisted pair provides foryet another object of the present invention, which is the ensuring thatall the circuits of the matrix and the shopping terminal involved withthe updating and loading processes are powered at all time, regardlessof power cuts and other power supply irregularities.

The updating and loading of shopping signals to the memories of theshopping circuit of the shopping terminal includes the updating andloading many pictures and illustrations of products and services at fastspeed. Propagating information signals via one twist pair, such as asingle pair of a CAT5 cable, are limited to 100 m or 330 ft. withrecommendations to limit the cable length to 60 m or 200 ft. for anetwork such as Ethernet 10 Base-T or faster.

In large high rise buildings such limitations cannot be met in a starconnections, linking a matrix with the residences, and the otherobjectives of the present invention is to provide a fast signalpropagation to well over 150˜200 m distances.

As will be detailed later, this is achieved by propagating FM modulateddata onto a carrier selected from of 10˜20 MHz or higher carrierfrequencies, for providing bandwidth of 4 MHz or more for the high speeddata needed to update and load the shopping data particulars includingproducts and services pictures and illustrations data.

As will be explained later a carrier frequency of 12 MHz, for example,enables to propagate FM modulated analog video signals to well over 200m via a single twist pair and the same FM modulator is used for FSKmodulation for propagating the high speed data to the shoppingterminals.

Even though the attenuation of a propagated signal in a range, such as10˜20 MHz, enables propagation distances of the signals to well above200 m and with S/N ratio that is well within the designed circuitsoperating range, there are other limitations that need to be overcome.

It is well known that the CAT5 cable limitations are not due toattenuation and signal to noise (S/N) only. The other limitations arethe propagation delay time and collisions.

To overcome propagation delay and collisions the present invention otherobjectives is to limit the high speed data propagation to a continuousnon interrupted one way transmission, or to a non-interrupted series ofpackets, or to other forms of timing structured transmissions for thepurpose of loading, updating, adding and modifying the data stored inthe shopping terminal memory, and provide a separate modulation mediumsuch as ASK at a lower speed for propagating two way commands, disclosedin the referenced application Ser. No. 13/599,275 to be a preprogrammedcoded signals, known as protocols.

This design makes it simple to upgrade and update at all times theshopping programs and content, with no collisions, timing limitations orother communications obstructions, while enabling simultaneouslypropagated two way command for operating the matrix, the shoppingterminal and the building server with no propagation limitations. Thebuilding server is discussed later.

The propagation of signals be it digital data or analog signal over atwisted pair mandates the signal to be a differential or balanced signalto eliminate noise, improve the S/N and the standing wave ratio.Differential signals must be fed through the twisted pair with ⊕ and ⊖polarities as prevailing in networks throughout. In practice, theinstallers and electricians repeatedly connect some of the twisted pairsto systems devices of video interphones and similar in reversedpolarities, mandating re-visit and re-connect the many devices that areunable to communicate, because of the wrongly connected lines inreversed polarity.

The present invention, similar to the prior shopping terminals and videointerphones, is designed to power the shopping circuits of each shoppingterminal or each of the entire shopping terminal unit via a rechargeablebattery. The battery is charged continuously via the same twisted paircarrying the information signals. The DC power polarity, similar to thedifferential signals polarity must be connected with no polaritieserror.

To remove such connection obstacles and provide error free connectionenvironment, another object of the present invention is to introduce anon-polar connections to the twisted pair or pairs.

With non-polar terminals for each pair, the installer is not required toidentify the ⊕ terminal and the ⊖ terminal prior to the connection,and/or verify the connected polarities, after he connects the pair toits terminals.

Yet, another objective of the present invention is to secure theinternal communication lines formed by the plurality of individualtwisted pairs connected in a star configuration to the main unit, termedalso the matrix. Each line comprising a twisted pair extended betweeneach individual shopping terminal and the main unit or the matrixterminals.

Each line must be designed to prevent an intrusion for the purpose ofcyber theft and this is achieved by introducing to each and every linethe circuits that process and propagate the referred to aboveinformation signals, comprising signals selected from a group,modulate/demodulate video signals, two way audio signals, encode/decodetwo way ASK signals, data signals, alarm signals, coded control signals,emergency signals, encode FSK data signals and combinations thereof.

The introduction of the processing circuits into each individual line isa physical prevention circuit for preventing any possible cyber theftattempt from communicating with the shopping terminal or the matrix,thereby fully protecting the cabling from outside/inside intrusion.

Further the introduction of individual signal processing circuitsreferred to above enables to rout or switch on-off the individualinformation signal such as video, or audio, FSK signals and ASK signalsto be directed or routed by a well known routing and/or on-off switchingcircuits between the building server that serves the e-commercecomprising e-services and e-shopping to the building or buildingsthrough a network selected from a group comprising dedicated network,private network, public network, the Internet, Virtual Private Network(VPN) and combinations thereof.

The building server may include a large memory capacity and/or memorybuffer but may be integrated into or use the literal limitless capacityof a cloud computing of the well known cloud computing providers such asAmazon. Alternatively the closed circuit e-commerce of a whole countryor for global purposes may install such cloud computing facilitydesigned and set for replacing some or all of the closed circuite-commerce servers of a given system.

Alternatively, for minimal systems such as for a single grocery providerfor a neighborhood or for one residential tower via one or few deliverystations, the closed circuit e-shopping may use a dedicated network withtwo or few servers, linking at least the example of tower building andat least one provider. For the two only connected servers to thededicated network, the e-shop server can well manage the credit,payments and the entire operation of the closed circuit e-shoppingentity.

It is important to note that regardless of the system size theindividual processing circuits further shields the system fromcyber-crimes including attempts by any of a locally connected peripheralsystem linked to the matrix or the main unit via the interfaces such asconcierge station, management office, swimming pool, health club, andcombinations thereof.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIGS. 1A and 1B are electrical block diagrams of circuits connecting theone end of a twisted pair to a selector or router of the main or matrixunit of an internal communication line of a video interphone or ane-shopping system infrastructure of the preferred embodiment of thepresent invention;

FIGS. 2A and 2B are electrical block diagrams of circuits connecting theother end of the twisted pair of FIGS. 1A and 1B to a video interphonemonitor or to a shopping terminal of the preferred embodiment of thepresent invention;

FIGS. 3A and 3B are modified block diagrams of FIGS. 1A and 1Bpropagating only one way FM modulated video and one way FSK modulatedsignals;

FIGS. 4A and 4B are modified block diagrams of FIGS. 2A and 2Bcommunicating only one way FM modulated video and one way FSK modulatedsignals;

FIG. 5A is an electrical block diagram of a basic video interphonesystem infrastructure of the present invention connecting the circuit ofFIGS. 3A and 3B to a single entry panel;

FIG. 5B is another preferred embodiment of FIG. 5A comprising n entrypanels selectively connected to the circuit of FIGS. 3A and 3B;

FIG. 6A is an expanded version of the system of FIG. 5B using three poleselectors for linking selectively n entry panels to circuits of FIGS. 3Aand 3B;

FIG. 6B is an electrical block diagram showing a portion of a modifiedmain unit of FIG. 6A using four pole selectors for linking selectively ninterfacing modules to n circuits of FIGS. 1A and 1B.

FIG. 7 is an electrical block diagram comprising a plurality of thecircuits of FIGS. 1A, 1B, 2A and 2B connected via a central unit usingplurality of four pole selectors or routers for selectively linking ncircuits of FIGS. 2A and 2B with n interfacing modules;

FIG. 8 is an electrical block diagram similar to FIG. 7 comprisingplurality of the circuits of FIGS. 3A, 3B, 4A and 4B with a limitedpropagation of FSK data or FM modulated signal to one way usingplurality of three pole selector or routers;

FIG. 9 is an electrical block diagram similar to FIG. 7 with a differentswitching or routing setup of another preferred embodiment;

FIG. 10 is an electrical block diagram similar to FIG. 8 with adifferent switching or routing setup of another preferred embodiment;

FIG. 11A is a block diagram showing the shopping circuit of the shoppingterminal including the circuits shown in FIGS. 1A˜4B, the main unit, theserver and the link to network of the closed circuit e-commerce of thepreferred embodiment;

FIG. 11B is an illustrative block diagram showing the memory structureof the shopping terminal, the updating rout for shopping particulars fedby the server via the main unit, the CPU and into the memory includingthe recall of shopping display pages into a memory buffer;

FIG. 12 is a block diagram showing the close circuit e-shopping systemcomprising video interphone system and television sets;

FIG. 13 is a block diagram similar to the closed circuit e-shoppingshown in FIG. 12, but comprising combinations of cable TV, terrestrialTV, set-top box, dedicated shopping box and dedicated shopping terminal;

FIG. 14 is an illustration showing the closed circuit e-shopping of thepreferred embodiment of the present invention including a block diagramof the system, the order processing in stages via the virtual privatenetwork of the system and the physical delivery from an embeddede-shopping delivery station to the ordering dweller;

FIGS. 15A and 15B are illustrations of the delivery tablet and the smartcart of the preferred embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 15C is an illustration of smart storage bins or racks of a deliverystation of the preferred embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

FIGS. 1A˜B show a block diagram of a circuit 100 to be connected betweenone end of a twisted pair 10 to a selector or router 540-1, 510-2 or540-n of FIG. 7 for processing the information signals propagated viathe twisted pair 10 between the two complementary circuits 100 and 200of FIGS. 2A˜B connected via the terminals 10A-B of FIGS. 1A˜B and 11A˜Bof FIGS. 2A˜B. The processed information signals comprising two way orbidirectional video signals, two way audio signals, two way orbidirectional ASK modulated data signals and two way FSK modulatedsignals. The signal ports or terminals are shown as one way microphonesignal port or terminal 140, one way speaker signal terminal 141, twopower terminals 150 and 151, two way or bidirectional video terminals160 and 161, two way ASK control and command signals terminal 162 andtwo way FSK data signals terminal 163.

The ASK and/or FSK signals are transmitted, received and/or exchangedthrough the CPU 105, propagating signals comprising data, codes,controls, commands, alarms, emergencies, queries, reports, responses andcombinations thereof. The ASK and/or FSK signals further including asthe case may be, digital audio and/or digital video signals and othermodulated ASK and FSK information and/or communication signals and anycombinations thereof. The CPU 105 propagates two way ASK (AmplitudeShift Keying) modulated signal via terminals 115 and 116 of the ASKmodulate-demodulate circuit 103 as well as FSK (Frequency Shift Keying)modulated signals via the FSK/video selector 104 and the FSKmodulate-demodulate circuit 102.

The FSK, video and ASK modulate-demodulate circuits 102 and 103 are wellknown frequency and amplitude modulator-demodulator, also known asFrequency Modulation (FM) and Amplitude Modulation (AM) and are commonlyavailable at low cost, packaged into a single IC 101 shown in a dashedline in FIG. 1A. The ASK needs to be fed with a clock at a selectedfrequency and the preferred embodiment uses clock signal in the range of0.5˜1.0 MHz. The clock generator 107 attached to the ASKmodulator-demodulator 107 can be a circuit included in the IC package101, or it can be an input for a clock to be fed for example from theCPU 105 or crystal (Xtal) oscillator or it can be an oscillator using adiscrete components, forming a well known clock generator.

The preferred embodiment employs 12.5 MHz base frequency for the FSKmodulator-demodulator circuit and the oscillator is a built-inoscillator, but can be a connected oscillator such a Xtal oscillator,similar to the clock generator of the ASK modulator-demodulator. It ispreferable to use a single clock generator for providing a synchronoustime base for both the ASK and FSK.

The CPUs 105 and 205 of FIG. 2A may use a memory buffer such as theshown buffer 208A of FIG. 11B or use an incorporated or a built-inmemory 208 or 536 shown FIG. 11A incorporated into the CPUs 205 and 535for timing of the ASK command and the FSK data propagation for aflawless synchronous processing of data.

The FSK/video selector 104, shown as a pair of electrical contacts forillustration only, the selector is a well known semiconductor circuit,such as multiplexer or semiconductor switch using FET or other switchingtransistors. The pole terminals 119A and 119B can operate together orindependently by a control command fed from the CPU 105 for connecting,for example, the input of the modulator to FSK input and commandsimultaneously the modulator to modulate the data fed from the CPU FSKout terminal and thereby outputting an FSK signals via terminal 112 tothe differential amplifier 121.

Even though the ASK and FSK signals are shown connected via separatein-out terminals such as the 115 and 116 for the ASK signals and 119Aand 119B for the in-out FSK signal via an in-out ports of the CPU 105,both the ASK and FSK data signal ports can be bidirectional andoperating in either direction with both respond to a command propagatedto the FSK/video selector 104, to the FSK modulate/demodulate 102 and tothe ASK modulate/demodulate 103 via the control lines such as the shownline 117A, 117B and 118 respectively. Further it is preferable to use asingle I/O port and control line to be programmed for controlling thetwo modulate/demodulate circuits 102 and 103 and depending on thecombined circuit 100 also to control the selector 104.

The differential amplifier 121 will output the modulated signal, be itthe FM modulated video or the FSK data, via the capacitors 172 and 173to remove DC components and feed the modulated signal through the highpass filters (HPF) 124 and 125 and through the twisted pair terminals10A and 10B to the twisted pair line 10 for feeding the FSK data or theFM modulated video signal to a complementary circuit 200 of the shoppingterminal shown in FIG. 2A.

The FM modulated video signal of a video camera such as a camera of avideo interphone entry panel and the FSK data signal propagation forupgrading/updating the memory of the shopping circuit with datapertaining to the shopping, the products and the services withparticulars is termed or reflect the movement of the signals hereafteras inbound communication, inbound direction or inbound propagation.

An FSK data or an FM modulated video signal from the shopping terminalcircuit 200 fed in reverse direction is termed to reflect signalmovement hereafter as outbound communication, outbound direction oroutbound propagation. The outbound signals are propagated via the HPF124 and 125, the coupling capacitors 170, 171 and the differentialamplifier-buffer 120 to the video/FSK modulate/demodulate circuit 102for demodulating and feeding the FSK signals propagated from theshopping terminal circuit 200 to the input FSK port of the CPU 105 orfeeding the demodulated video signal to the video out terminal 161. TheCPU 105 processes the FSK or the video data signal received on the basisof the command processed via the CPU 105 and the FSK/video select 104direction.

It is clear from the above that each of the FSK data signals or the FMmodulated video signal, both having a carrier frequency of such as 12.5MHz referred to above is propagated in two directions via thedifferential amplifier 121 and amplifier-buffer 120. The differential FMmodulated video and the differential FSK data signals are propagated viathe twisted pair 10 between the circuits 100 and 200 via high passfilters 124, 125, 224 and 225 and thereby are separated, as will beexplained later, from other signals that are propagated via the sametwisted pair 10 between the circuits 100 and 200.

The resistors 180˜187 of FIG. 1A and 280˜287 of FIG. 2A are referencesresistors for the operational amplifiers 120˜123 and 220˜223 of FIGS. 1Aand 2A respectively. References may comprise more than one resistor eachand/or comprise coils, capacitors and resistors arrays.

The ASK signals selected from a group comprising data, shopping,command, control, alarm and emergency are propagated two way between thecircuits 100 and 200 of FIGS. 1A˜B and 2A˜B. The clock frequency of theASK as referred to above is for example 0.5 MHz which enables abidirectional data at a rate of 125K Baud.

Similar to the FSK differential amplifier and amplifier-buffer 121 and120, the ASK differential amplifier 123 and amplifier-buffer 122propagate the bidirectional differential ASK data signals via theoutbound terminal 113 and the inbound 114 terminal, the couplingcapacitors 174, 175, 176 and 177 and the band pass filters 126 and 127and through the terminals 10A and 10B and the same twisted pair 10 forcommunicating the bidirectional differential ASK data with the circuit200 of the shopping terminal of FIGS. 2A˜B.

The band pass filters (BPF) 126, 127, 226 and 227 of FIGS. 1A˜B and 2A˜Bare calculated to pass signals within a given band, ranging for example,from 200 KHz to 800 KHz, providing substantial separating distance fromthe audio signals that are propagated in their real time or basicfrequency range of approximately 80 Hz˜8 KHz and from the FM modulatedvideo or FSK data having carrier frequency of 12.5 MHz and band widthof, for example 5˜7 MHz, assuring that the lowest shift frequencyremains above 5 MHz.

The separation of the ASK band ranging from 200 KHz˜800 KHz, includingharmonics and other stray signals and noises from the audio band thatincluding harmonics may reach a maximum of 50 KHz and from the FMvideo/FSK signals having a band that its lowest frequency is over 5 MHz.It is obvious and clear that a separation of 150 KHz from the audio bandand over 4 MHz separation from the FM video/FSK band are substantial andallow the three groups of signals comprising audio, ASK and FM video orFSK data to be propagated over the same twisted pair simultaneously, oneway and/or bidirectional.

FIGS. 1B, 2B, 3B and 4B show a well known circuit of another preferredembodiment of the present invention using balun transformers 100B and200B that propagate a wide band signals ranging for example from 100 KHzto 1.0 GHz, between non balanced and balanced lines with varying lineimpedances and signal sources, bidirectional and simultaneously.

The circuits 100A, 200A, 190A and 290A shown consume no power, using fewpassive components to replace the entire blocks of the buffer amplifiers120, 123, 220 and 230 and the differential amplifiers 121, 122, 221 and222, the coupling capacitors 170˜177, 270˜277 and the referenceresistors 180˜187 and 280˜287, all of which are not needed and are notused.

The bidirectional circuit 100A connects the ASK modulate-demodulateterminals 113 and 114 via coupling capacitors 174B and 175B, lineresistors 184B and 185B, a single band bass filter 127 and the balun(balanced-unbalanced) transformer 100B.

The bidirectional FSK modulate-demodulate terminals 111 and 112 areconnected to the balun 100B via the coupling capacitors 171B and 173B,the line resistors 180B and 181B and the high pass filter 125. The balun100B is connected to the connecting points 10C and 10D of the twistedpair terminals via the coupling capacitor 178B, replacing thebidirectional differential circuits and maintaining in full the one wayand bidirectional propagation of all the referred to above signalsincluding any combinations thereof with no signal degradation.

The significant difference between the balun circuit 100A and thedifferential circuits of the circuit 100 is the noise immunity and theradiation of noise (EMI).

This makes the selection between the two circuits a design choice basedupon the signals and the environment surrounding the internalcommunication lines and the type of the lines. As will be discussedlater, the shown single twisted pair is also a selection or a choice forthe internal communication lines between a single and plurality oftwisted pairs.

The balun circuits 200A of FIG. 2B are literally identical with thebalun circuit 100A. The shown differences are the numerals of thecoupling capacitors, such as 171B˜178B or 271B˜278B, the line resistors,such as 180B˜185B or 280B˜285B, the balun numeral 100B or 200B and theconnections to the terminals 10C or 10D or 11C and 11D. Otherwise thecircuit 100A is identical with the circuit 200A and both arecomplementary circuit to the other.

The same numerals are used for the circuits 190A and 290A of FIGS. 3Band 4B, as used for the circuits 100A and 200A. The only differencebetween the circuits 100A and 190A or 200A and 290A is the one way FMvideo and FSK data as used for video interphone system combining thee-shopping circuits 20 such as shown in

FIGS. 8, 11A and 11B.

The propagated bidirectional audio signal, such as wired telephonesignal propagated via a twisted pair, requires matching impedances atthe ends of the line. For providing good audio termination, particularlywhen the DC power for operating the circuit 200 of FIG. 2A is fedthrough the twisted pair, such as commonly provided in wired telephones,the termination is preferably provided by an audio line transformers 142of FIGS. 1A and 242 of FIG. 2A.

The transformers are connected to the twisted pair terminals 10A and 10Bvia two non-polar capacitor NP. The reason for using the non-polarcapacitors is the DC power polarity fed to the shopping terminal of FIG.2A via the twisted pair 10. The power and signaling feed are preferablydesigned to enable non-polar twisted pair connections between theterminal 10A and 10B to the terminals 11A and 11B.

Such non-polar connections will feed the power polarity in two ways atrandom, and therefore the two capacitors NP connecting line 10 via theterminals 11A and 11B to the line transformer 242 are non-polarcapacitors, and not the well known polarized capacitors for DCconnections. The non-polar state is not the same for the two capacitorsNP of FIG. 1A.

The power terminals ⊕ 150 and ⊖ 151 are shown in FIG. 1A connected inthe given polarities to the main unit 600 or 700 of FIGS. 7 and 8 andpolarized capacitors such as electrolytic or tantalum capacitors couldbe used. However as capacitors impedance vary with the capacitor typesand structure and to ensure identical impedance at both ends of thetwisted pair it is preferable to use identical capacitors NP at bothends of the twisted pair 10 as shown in FIGS. 1A and 2A.

The primary coil of the line transformer 142 is connected to a hand freevoice communication IC, which is a well known IC used in many types ofhand free audio communication, such as conference telephones and thewell known hand free video interphone monitors. The hands free refers tointercoms and telephones that are not provided with handset and/or areoperated by keeping the handset on hook while talking to a microphoneand listening to a speaker sound via openings provided on the main bodyof an intercom or a telephone unit. The hand free IC prevents howlingand oscillation caused by a sound feedback from the speaker into themicrophone.

The terminal 140 mic. and 141 sp. connect the two way voice signals,mic. and speaker propagated through the line transformer 142, thenon-polar capacitors NP, the terminals 10A and 10B and the twisted pair10 that is exchanging the referred to above ASK, FSK or FM video signalwith the shopping terminals circuit 200.

The power source for operating the circuits 100 and 200 of FIGS. 1A and2A is fed from a DC power supply, such as 12V or 15V or 24V or any othereffective DC power for operating the circuits 100 and 200 including theLCD or other display screen for operating the video interphone, theshopping terminal and combinations thereof.

The shopping terminal disclosed in the referenced US patents include TV,cable TV and different well known boxes, such as set-top box, cable box,antenna converter box, satellite converter box and a dedicated shoppingbox. Accordingly it is advantageous to include the circuit 200 insidethe TV, be it cable TV or antenna TV, and/or inside any of the referredto above well known boxes.

The TVs and the boxes are commonly powered via the AC power line of theresidence, yet the TV or the boxes may be switched off, and if thecircuit 200 is powered via the power supply of the TV or the box, thecircuit will not be responsive to entry calls when it is used for videointerphone function, moreover the circuit 200 will not be responsive toupdates of shopping data, fresh loading and/or other upgrades and/orother particulars updating.

Accordingly it is preferred that the circuit 200 is powered via thenon-polar transmission line. The power consumed by the circuits 100 and200 are pre-defined, known and/or calculated and the preferred powerfeed is a pre-calculated current controlled value. Controlled currentdoes not pass power line surges and prevents current fluctuation,thereby ensuring a fixed stable current flow, reducing communicationdisturbances from power supply sources and noisy loads that otherwisewill affect the signal propagated via the same line, such as the twistedpair line 10.

The U.S. Pat. No. 5,923,363 discloses such controlled current forpowering video interphone circuit including an associate rechargeablebattery that enables to power and fully operate a video interphone for agiven time duration. The shopping terminals and the video interphonesrecited in the referenced US patents are also provided with suchcharging circuits and associated rechargeable battery.

The shopping terminal circuit 200 and/or a dedicated shopping terminalare not commonly expected to be fully active 24 hours, 7 days a week. Itis anticipated that a dedicated shopping terminal will operate shorttime of less than one hour at a time. Operation time duration of fewhours per day by a rechargeable battery that is being chargedcontinuously with a fixed pre-defined controlled current is well withina range of low cost rechargeable batteries, such as used for iPad andmobile phones throughout.

The main power supply 15 of the main unit 690 of such as shown in FIG. 6feeds a controlled current via the terminals 150 and 151 connecting thepower source of the controlled current via dual coils 153 and 154 andvia the terminals 10A and 10B to the twisted pair line 10. The singlecapacitor 152 shown is a shunt capacitor for shorting any residualaudio, ASK, FSK or FM signal. The capacitor 152 is shown as a singlecapacitor, however several capacitors such as ceramic, tantalum, mylaror electrolytic and combinations thereof can be used instead.

The coils 153 and 154 are preferably very large coils, such as 1 Henry,using very high permeability cores, with the coil windings andresistance are calculated to ensure that a short circuit at theterminals 10A-10B or along the twisted pair wire 10 will not damage thecoils. The large coils present very large impedance and together withthe capacitor 152 prevent any of the signals from reaching the powersource for totally separating the signals from the DC power.

It is preferable that the windings of the coils are designed and made toensure that careless connection and mishandling of wires and polaritieswill not damage the coils themselves, the main unit, its circuits andcomponents, including the power components. Moreover, the non-polarconnection releases the installer from the need to conform with theconnection polarities. The non-polar enables the installer to connectthe twisted pair with any which polarity to the terminals 10A and 10Band regardless of the DC polarity the circuit will function properly,providing of course that no shorts are made during the connection.

The power fed through the twisted pair 10 is connected at its other endto the terminals 11A and 11B shown in FIG. 2A, that are connected tolarge coils 256 and 257 for filtering the signals out and feed thenon-polar power to a bridge rectifier 255. The well known bridgerectifier will output via its polarized terminals shown as ⊕ and ⊖ andfeed a correctly polarized power to the filtering and storage capacitor254 and to the regulator 253.

The regulator 253 feeds its regulated output to the other filtering andstorage capacitor 252 and to the VCC terminals 250 and 251, providing adefined power commensurate with the voltage and current consumed by theshopping circuit, not including the charging of a chargeable battery230.

A built-in battery 230 can be introduced to the circuit 200, or suchbattery can be associated with or connected to the shopping terminal.Preferably the battery should be connected and charged by the circuit231. The charge circuit 231 commensurate with the type of battery usedand with an appropriate charging rate. The charging rate must be aportion of, or the sharing of, the pre-defined control current.

The fixed pre-defined current is calculated to enable the operation ofthe shopping circuit 200 in a standby mode and adequately charge thebattery 230 simultaneously. When the shopping circuit 20 of FIG. 11A isoperating in full including the display 209 the charged battery 230 willprovide the needed power.

The introduction of an associated rechargeable battery 230 or similar isa matter of choice, including the powering of the circuit 200. Thebattery 230 of the preferred embodiment is selected for powering atleast the circuit 200 and at least a portion of the shopping circuitincluding the memory 208 that stores the many pictures, prices,deliveries and availabilities 46, 47, 48 and 49 of FIG. 11B that must beupdated at random and/or at a given pre-determined times.

The shopping circuit 21 comprising the CPU 205 and the memory 208connected to the circuit 200 must be powered for at least a standby modeand ready to receive updates and upgrades of shopping particulars at alltime, and not be dependent on the power on-off switch of the shoppingterminal, or be cut by the unplugging of the AC power cord that connectsa shopping terminal or the video interphone to the power source.

FIG. 2A shows the opposite circuit to the circuit shown in FIG. 1A thatis mostly identical with the circuit 100, excluding the power outputcircuit 250˜255, the battery 230 and the battery charger 231, forconnecting the two circuits at the opposite ends of the twisted paircable 10.

The video/FSK modulator/demodulator 202 and the bidirectional ASKmodulator/demodulator 203 and the whole package 201 are identical withthe same package IC 101 of FIG. 1A. Same applies the operationalamplifiers and drivers 220˜223, the reference resistors 280˜287, thecoupling capacitor 270˜277, the BPF 226 and 227, the HPF 224 and 225,the NP capacitors, the line transformer 242 and the hands free voice IC206, they are identical or similar to the circuits shown in FIG. 1A andexplained above in detail.

The basic differences are the bridge rectifier 255 with the powerconnection terminals 250˜251, the signal terminals 260˜263 and thebattery terminals 232 and 233. While the terminal 150 and 151 of FIG. 1Aare connected to a power source the terminals 250 and 251 output the VCCto the circuit 200. The VCC for the circuit 100 is fed directly from theunit main power supply 15 of the main unit or matrix 600 to theterminals 164 and 165 of FIG. 1A.

The outbound video from the terminal 261 and the inbound video to theterminal 260 are shown to be reversed for the outbound and the inboundvideo from and to the terminal 160˜161 of the circuit 100. The controland command terminal 162 is communicating ASK signals with the main ormatrix controller 535 of the circuit in FIG. 7 and the same control andcommand terminal 262 of FIG. 2A is communicating with the main CPU 205of the shopping terminal also shown in FIGS. 11A and 11B.

The FSK in-out is propagated to and from the memory 208 of the shoppingterminal shown in FIGS. 11A and 11B, communicating the bidirectional FSKdata via terminal 263, the twisted pair 10 and via the terminal 163 ofthe circuit 100 and with the main or the matrix controller 535 or withthe server 8 shown in FIGS. 11A and 11B.

FIG. 3A shows the circuit 190, which is similar to the circuit 100 ofFIG. 1A by limiting the FSK or FM modulated video to only one waypropagation from the circuit 190 to the circuit 290 of FIG. 4A. The oneway FSK circuit is essential for the closed circuit e-commerce,particularly for the need to update the stored data of the shoppingterminal, stored in the memory shown as 208 in FIGS. 11A and 11B. Theone way FM modulated video is essential for the video interphone systemsfor transmitting an image of a visitor.

The same apply to the circuit 290 of FIG. 4A, which is the circuit 200of FIG. 2A but with only one way propagation of the FSK or FM modulatedvideo from the circuit 190 to the circuit 290. Both the circuits 190 and290 use the VID/FSK circuit 102 partly, the circuit 190 limits thecircuit 102A to modulate function only and the FSK/video selector 104Aas a single selector for selecting the inbound signal between the videoor FSK data. Another change is the elimination of the differentialamplifier-driver 120 and the differential amplifier 221, with all theirperipheral components including the terminals 160 and 261.

Other elements, terminals and components shown in FIGS. 1A and 2A andare not referred to above in connection with the circuits 190 and 290 ofFIGS. 3A and 4A are similar to and are common to all the four circuits100, 200, 190 and 290. Moreover, references and explanations made toelements, terminals and components of any one of the two circuits ofFIGS. 1A and 3A or FIGS. 2A and 4A are the same, particularly circuits100 and 190 and circuits 200 and 290.

It becomes clear from the circuits 100, 200, 190 and 290 of FIGS. 1A,2A, 3A and 4A that a single twisted pair can be connected between a mainrouter or a matrix unit and a shopping circuit of a given residence orother singular unit of a building, for propagating bidirectional audiosignals, one way and bidirectional ASK signals selected from a groupcomprising commands, control, alarm, emergency, shopping, coded data,any other data and combinations thereof, one way or bidirectional FMmodulated video signal or FSK data and control including the feeding ofcontrolled DC current and combinations thereof.

It also becomes clear that a rechargeable battery can be connected to,associated with or built into the circuit 200 of a shopping terminal ofsaid singular unit of a building.

When the shopping terminal is a TV set or a dedicated shopping terminalor the well known box that are not connected to a video interphone of abuilding or a house, and no video from such units as entry panels orsecurity cameras are propagated to the shopping terminal the circuits190 and 290 of FIGS. 3A and 4A can be further reduced by eliminating thevideo/FSK selectors 104A and 204B and the terminals 161 and 260respectively.

It is also clear that by removing the FSK/video selectors and fixedlyconnecting the FSK ports of the CPUs 105 and 205 of FIGS. 1A and 2A withno video propagation the terminals 160, 161, 260 and 261 can beeliminated along with the selectors 104 and 204 for providing suchreduced circuit with bidirectional FSK propagation along with all theother signals referred to above, except the one way or the bidirectionalvideo, yet an FSK modulated digital video signal can be propagated aswill be referred to further below via the CPUs 105 and 205.

Similarly it will be possible to remove all the audio components such asthe transformers 142 and 242, the hand free ICs 106 and 206, thecapacitors NP and the audio terminals 140, 141, 240 and 241 andpropagate any or a combination of the referred above signals withoutaudio.

It is also clear that the circuits 100, 190, 200 and 290 shown in FIGS.1A, 2A, 3A and 4A including FIGS. 1B, 2B, 3B and 4B can be modified,reduced in size and the number of components to provide best practicalcircuit for a selected one way and bidirectional communications of thereferred to above individual signals and combinations thereof, with orwithout the DC power feed referred to above.

FIG. 5A is a block diagram of an entry panel 400 of a video interphonesystem connected to the circuit 190 referred to above. The entry panelcomprising a microphone 401 and a microphone driver 411, a speaker 402and a speaker amplifier 412, a camera 403 and a camera driver 413, a CPU430 and a switch 420 for connecting/disconnecting a combined threesignals comprising inbound microphone signal via terminal 405, outboundspeaker signal via terminal 406 and inbound video via terminal 407.

The well known select keys, displays and other elements and featurescommonly provided for entry panels are not shown in FIGS. 5A, 5B and 6A.This is because the entry panels 400 of FIGS. 5A, 5B and 6A are toillustrate the unique and inventive routing-selecting of theinbound-outbound signals propagation via interface module 440 and themain unit 600, also termed matrix or router, from any of the entrypanels 400 and/or the e-service and/or e-shops communication interfacemodules 440 shown in FIGS. 6A, 6B, 7 and 8.

The switches 420 shown in FIGS. 5A, 5B, 6A and 6B are shown as amechanical contact switches for simplifying the explanation. Thepreferred embodiment of the present invention employs digital or analogrouting or switching ICs that are well known and are commonly availableat low cost from many IC manufacturers worldwide.

The voice and video signals can be analog or digital, compressed ornon-compressed, digital audio and video signals are routed via thesystems CPUs 205, 105, 430 and 535. Analog audio signals are connectedand routed via terminal 140 (mic.) and 141 (sp.) and analog videosignals, by the camera 403 or other video source, are connected androuted to terminal 161.

The video signal that is generated by the camera 403 refers to a cameraused with the entry panel 400 of a video interphone system, however whenthe video interphone monitor comprising a shopping terminal circuit 20of FIGS. 11A and 11B and the video signal is connected and routed viathe terminal 161 can be any video signal fed from the interface module440 shown in FIGS. 6A, 6B, 7 and 8. The interface module provides forlinking with entry panels, e-service and e-shopping providers and theswitch 420 shown inside the entry panels 400 of FIGS. 5A and 5B arepreferably included in the interface module 440 shown in FIGS. 6A, 6B, 7and 8 for connecting and/or routing any video signal generated by thecamera 403 and any video signal propagated from the e-service and thee-shopping providers shown in FIGS. 12 and 13.

When an audio signal, be it the microphone signal, the speaker singleand/or including the camera signal or any other video signal referred toabove are digital signal the connection and routing are differentlyhandled.

The digital audio and/or video need to be routed through the higherspeed FSK modulated signal and therefore the microphone terminal 140,the speaker terminal 141 and the video terminal 161 are not used andinstead the signal will be connected and routed to the I/O ports 431˜433of the CPU 430 of the entry panel 400 or the 440 modules. The CPU 430will propagate the signals via its I/O port 401 to the main CPU 535 ofthe main units 600 and 690 shown in FIGS. 7 and 8 respectively.

The main CPU 535 connects and routs the audio and video digital signalsto the terminal 163 of the circuit 100. As the circuits 190 and 290 ofFIGS. 3 and 4 are provided with one way only FSK and FM modulated videopropagation, they cannot be used for bidirectional FSK signals such asneeded for the inbound microphone signal and the outbound speakersignal. Yet for the modules 440 that are used solely for propagating oneway FSK data for updating or upgrading the stored data in the memory 208or the memory buffer 208A shown in FIGS. 11A and 11B, the circuits 190and 290 can be used.

When the microphone signal and the speaker signals are analog and onlythe camera signal is digital the circuits 190 and 290 can be used. Theprogrammed selector however will connect and rout the camera signal viathe CPU 430 and via the CPU 535 to the terminal 163 and the selectors104A and 104B will rout the signal to the FSK demodulate circuit toprocess, decode and store the picture data into the memory 208 shown inFIGS. 11A and 11B. If the stored video signal is compressed the CPU 205will decompress the signal for display onto the shopping terminal screen209.

When a visitor activates the entry panel 400 of FIG. 5A using touchscreens, visitor select keys or any other type of accessing, such asREID card, picture identification and similar the switch 420 willconnect the speaker (sp.), the microphone (mic.) and video signalgenerated by the camera 403 of said entry panel.

The video, mic., and speaker signals are fed through the terminal 405,406 and 407 of the entry panel to the terminals 140, 141 and 161 of thecircuit 100 or 190 respectively for communicating with the videointerphone 701 or the shopping terminal that is shown to be combinedwith a television (TV) set 702 of FIG. 12. The entry panels shown inFIG. 12 are shown with select keys 409 and a display screen including atouch screen 404 and the camera 403.

The switch 420 shown in FIG. 5A thereby becomes a linking switch betweenthe shown single entry panel and the circuit 190, feeding the inboundmicrophone and camera signals and receiving the outbound speaker signalfor communicating via the line 10 and the circuit 290 with the videointerphone 701 or the combined shopping terminal and a TV set 702 shownin FIG. 12. It is obviously clear that the CPU 430 of FIGS. 5A and 5Bcan be controlled by the main CPU 535 on the basis of a switch oncommand generated by the video interphone 701 or the shopping terminal702 of FIG. 12.

FIG. 5B shows n entry panels 400-1, 400-2 and 400-n, each incorporatingthe switch 420. The CPUs 430 are programmed to switch on only one switch420, be it by a command generated at random by a visitor at one of theentry panels, or by a command generated and fed from the videointerphone monitor 701 or the TV set 702 and propagated via the CPU 535.The CPUs 430 will reject a switch on command to a switch 420 whenanother switch 420 is switched on. The limiting of the switches 420operation to one switch only is important because the connections setupshown in FIG. 5B cannot permit the linking of more than one entry panel400 with the circuit 100 or 190.

FIG. 6A shows an expanded switching circuit of FIG. 5B for connectingany one of the entry panels 400-1˜400-n with a single circuit 190 suchas circuit 190-1, or selectively any one of the panels 400 with any oneof the n circuits 190, or connecting plurality of the entry panels 400with plurality of the circuits 190. The circuit of FIG. 6A is showingtwo entry panels 400-2 and 400-n connected to the circuits 190-n and190-1 respectively.

In details the entry panel 400-2 is connected to the circuit 190-n viathe switch 533-2 of the combination switch 530-n shown in the block620-n. The entry panel 400-n is connected to the circuit 190-1 via theswitch 533-n of the combination switch 530-1 in the block 620˜1. Theswitches 420-1˜420-n are interconnected in a given pattern inside theblocks 620 for providing shortest possible linking lines within the PCBarea.

The shown n combination switches 530-1 and 530-n each comprising nswitches or routers 533-1, 533-2 and 533-n. The number of switches 533of each combination switch 530 is selected to correspond with the numberof the modules 440 including the entry panels 400 connected through themodules 440, shown to be n.

The main CPU 535 is programmed to switch on only one of the n switches533 of a given combination switch 530 together with a selected oneswitch 420. For example, FIG. 6A shows an entry panel 400-2 commanded tolink with the circuit 190-n via the switches 420-2 and 533-2 of thecombination switch 530-n and the entry panel 400-n is commanded to linkwith the circuit 190-1 via the switches 420-n and 533-n of thecombination switch 530-1 respectively.

The entry panels 400 of FIGS. 5B and 6A are shown diluted, without thedrivers and/or the signals connection to the I/O ports 431˜433 of FIG.5A. The entry panels 400 in FIG. 6A are shown diluted for simplifyingthe drawings, but should be viewed as comprising the same blocks andcircuits shown in FIG. 5A including other elements such as a displaywith touch screen 404 and select keys 409 shown in FIG. 12.

Further, it is important and significant that only one switch 533 or 544of a given combination switch 530 or 540 shown in FIGS. 6A and 6B can beswitched on and that no two switches 533 or 544 of a given combinationswitch 530 or 540 are linked with the same entry panel 400 or samemodule 440. Such limitation makes it obviously clear that any one of thecircuits 190 can be linked with any one of the entry panels 400directly, and that no other circuit 190 can be linked with the sameentry panel.

The preferred embodiment program for the CPUs 205, 105, 430 and 535prevents two or more circuits 100, 190, 200 and 290 from being crossedor linked together, be it with the same entry panel 400, or as will beexplained later, with the same entry panel, or the same e-service ande-shopping interface module 440 shown also in FIGS. 7 and 8.

The programming of switches or routers used in a network such as aninfrastructure of a building must consider seriously the best method toprevent hacking or abuse of commercial transactions. The commonlypropagated TCP/IP signal in a network with routers and hubs such asEthernet network is easily accessible through the many hubs or routersof such network and the preferred embodiment of the present invention isto provide physical routing for pier to pier communication only.

Typical IP routing via IP digital switches, such as used for example bythe well known digital switches in a voice over IP (VoIP) systems is notthe preferred embodiment, even though such digital switches can beprogrammed for pier to pier links.

Such IP switching ICs used in a commercial environment must beprogrammed with highly secured and limiting interconnection between theshopping terminal circuit 100 or 190 with the entry panel 400 or themodule 440 shown in FIGS. 7˜10. Yet it can never be safe enough toprevent hackers from within the building unless a very high level ofsecurity protections including encryption and other complex and costlyprograms are applied.

For this reason the preferred embodiment of the present invention usesswitching or routing devices programmed to ensure each line 10 integrityand that no two lines 10 can be crossed or physically invaded and thatthe connections between residences or offices from within the buildingcan never be misidentified or wrongly diagnosed as another registereduser.

The programs designed for the switches or routers of an infrastructurednetwork used for multi tenants building must include high level ofsecurity programming for preventing hacking and abuses, particularlywhen the infrastructure is used for commercial purposes such ase-shopping and e-services that may include bank transactions, creditcards and insurance services.

Such high level programming for residential buildings is extremelycostly, particularly when the network is a local (LAN) IP network suchas the well known Ethernet. Infrastructure based on commonly availablehubs and routers used in Ethernet network can be easily penetrated fromwithin the system as stated above.

A simple unplugging of an RJ45 connecter from a switching hub or arouter of the building internal network and replacing it by an RJ45 pluglinked to the hacker's PC provides a knowledgeable hacker the simplemeans to invade, or it may be viewed as invitation to enter and abusethe system from within. Therefore even highly secured IP LAN system thatincludes encryption and other well known firewalls will be rejected bymost financial institution, that commonly refuse to be connected to avulnerable network.

The referred to above communication of choice is one that enables thecommunication of data and commands and protocols to be propagated ininbound and outbound direction using ASK and FSK modulated signals aswell as video and audio signals, all of which are preferably used toinclude directive commands and protocols, directing data or transactionsat synchronized random timing via different routes, such as interruptingFSK stream for continuation by an ASK stream commanded via audio stream.

Such synchronous switching between communication mediums over a singletwisted pair connected is star configuration between two circuits 100and 200 that process the random synchronous directing commands for apre-configured transactions, fully protect any attempt to invade thesystem via the internal communication lines of a building and which isanother preferred embodiment of the programming used in the presentinvention.

It is preferable to have a system that prevents physical accesses toswitches and/or to the twisted pair lines 10 from within the building.For example, the shown lines 10 between the circuits 100 and 200 areforming pier to pier star connections shown as direct connection betweenthe main unit or matrix 600, 650, 670 or 690 of FIGS. 7˜10 with eachindividual circuit 200 or 290 of each apartment or unit of a building.

Moreover, though the switches are shown in FIGS. 6A and 6B as a set ofmechanical switches or combination of multi poles switches andindividually numbered, such as 420, 533 or 544, the switches of thepreferred embodiment of the present invention are combined into one orvery few IC packages, such as the well known gate arrays (FPGA) and/orlarge scale multiplexers having multi-channel arrays, such as the arrays530 and 540 having common command to switch on or link simultaneouslythe combination of signals referred to above, which applies also to theswitches 420 of FIGS. 6A and 6B as well.

The other shown switches having a common terminal and multi polechannels for commanding and linking each channel individually, such asthe switches 551˜554 and 561˜563 of routers arrays 550 and 560 includedin the blocks 630 and 640 of FIGS. 9 and 10, each connected to nplurality of the circuit 100 and 190 respectively.

When ASK and FSK IP signals including VoIP and IP video signals arepropagated through the main unit 600, 650, 670 or 690 the switches ofthe preferred embodiment referred to above further comprising the wellknown digital switches, and the programs for the main unit or matrix600, 650, 670 or 690 is preferably programmed to maintain the directpier to pier connection via the fixedly connected single twisted pair 10between the circuit 100 or 190 of the main unit and the circuit 200 or290 of the video interphone 701 or the shopping terminal 702 shown inFIG. 12 in each apartment or a unit of a building.

FIGS. 6A, 6B and 7 show the main units 600 and 690, termed also arouting unit, a router or a matrix for connecting or linking thebidirectional video, FSK, ASK and audio signals including DC feed ofcontrolled current via the fixedly attached n twisted pair lines 10between n pairs of circuits 100 and 200 or 190 and 290, for selectivelyconnecting n entry panels 400 or e-service or e-shopping interfacingmodules 440 with n video interphone monitors or other display appliancesincluding the shopping circuits 20 shown in FIGS. 11A˜13.

The entry panel, e-service and e-shopping modules 440 are connectingmodules comprising the switches 420 that are not shown in FIG. 7 butshown in FIGS. 6A and 6B including the CPU 430, for operating the basicentry panels 400, such as shown in FIG. 12, comprising the circuitsshown in FIG. 5A but without the switch 420.

By such arrangement the switches 420 feeding the microphone, speaker andcamera lines of the entry panels 400-1˜400-n of FIG. 5B need not beremotely connected to distant terminals of the main unit 600, preferablythey are positioned in close vicinity with the switches 533 or 544 ofFIGS. 6A and 6B such as shown inside blocks 620-1˜620-n of FIG. 6A andblock 610-n of FIG. 6B. Each entry panel 400 is thereby connecteddirectly to a given termination point within the main unit, with eachline being properly terminated.

Proper termination will not be possible if the shown undefined length ofthe lines connected in FIG. 5B to the open switches 420, leaving theends of the lines in a state of open tails that cause poor or badtermination with high standing waves ratio.

For such reasons and for simplifying the interconnections and thetermination of the lines of the system it is preferred to provide allthe connections 405, 406, 407 and 408 from the switch 420 into a centralconnection points leading to the four or three pole switches or routers544 or 533 inside the blocks 610-1˜610-n of the main unit 600 and620-1˜620-n of the main unit 690 of FIGS. 7 and 8 respectively.

Each switch 544 of the router array 540 is operated to link all the foursignals via the four poles shown in FIG. 7 for linking the mic., sp.,inbound video and outbound video for each of the n circuits 100. Thethree pole switches 533 of the router array 530 shown in FIG. 8 connectto the circuits 190 that do not provide outbound FM video and do not usethe fourth pole. The switches 533 and 544 are concentrated into a smallprinted circuit board (PCB) area of the blocks 610 and 620 with veryshort interconnecting lines between them.

The switches 420 that are operated via the CPU 430 of the modules 440and are preferably positioned in closed vicinity with the circuits 100and 190 respectively. It is further preferable to combine all theswitches into a small area, for exchanging the combinations of signalswith n number of circuits 100 or 190 each comprising four pole switchesor routers 544 shown in FIG. 7 or three pole switches or routers 533shown in FIG. 8 for switching or routing the mic., sp. inbound video andoutbound video signals, exchanged with the circuit 200.

Even though the main unit 600 is structured to connect the circuit 100of FIG. 1A the shown circuit 190 of FIG. 3A can be introduced instead ofthe circuit 100. The difference between circuits 100 and 190 is that thecircuit 190 is not provided with the outbound circuits for the FM videosignal, nor the terminal 160. The fourth pole of the switch 544 thatconnects the outbound FM video via the terminal 160 of circuit 200 willtherefore not propagate the outbound FM video signal when the circuit190 is connected, but all other referred to above signals includingmic., sp. and camera signals will be propagated promptly.

FIG. 8 shows the main unit 690 that is similar to the main unit 600 ofFIG. 7. The difference is the use of three pole switches or routers 533for each circuit 190 instead of the four pole switches or routers 544used in the circuit 100. As the circuit 190 does not propagate outboundFM modulated video the outbound video terminal 160 and the outboundvideo selector 104 are not needed and are not included in the circuit190.

Yet, if a shopping circuit 20 of FIG. 11A is provided with a digitalvideo source the shopping circuit can generate and modulate the digitalvideo signal for feeding an outbound FSK modulated digital video signalvia the CPUs 205, 105 and through the I/O port of the CPU 535 of FIG.11A.

The bidirectional ASK signals are propagated between the CPUs 105, 205,535 and 430 at a preferred rate of 125K baud. The ASK signal isaccessible via all the elements, units and devices of the system such asthe video interphone monitor 701, the shopping terminal 702, the circuit100, 190, 200 and 290, the entry panels 400, the interfacing modules440, the main units 600, 650, 670 and 690, the system server 8 at randomand at all times.

Both the main units 600 and 690 shown in FIGS. 7 and 8 clearlyillustrate that any of the modules 440 can selectively propagate one wayand bidirectional combinations of the signals referred to above,selectively via the switches or routers 420, 533 and 544 including theCPUs 205 and 105 for exchanging the ASK and FSK signals with any of aselected circuits 200 or 290 via the circuits 100 or 190, and via thesingle twisted pair 10 fixedly connecting the two circuits 100 with 200,or 190 with 290, including the feeding of a controlled DC current tosaid circuit 200 or 290 via the same twisted pair 10.

FIG. 9 shows another switching or routing setup via the selectors orswitches or routers 551˜554 of a combination router 550. The shownindividual switches, selectors or routers 551˜554 of the combinationrouters 550 differ from the shown switches 420 and the switches orrouters 533 or 544 of the combination switch 530 or 540 by the number ofpoles per each switch or router, the number of the switches or routersused and by the applied control whereby all of the three or four polesof the switches or routers 420, 533 and 544 are operated simultaneouslyto link selectively a circuit 200 or 290 via the line 10 and thecircuits 100 or 199 with a module 440 by operating a pair of switches orrouters 420 and 533 or 420 and 544 shown in FIGS. 7 and 8 via a singlecommand.

In contrast the routers shown in FIGS. 9 and 10 illustrate a differentswitching setup whereby, the switch or router 420 inside the module 440(not shown in FIGS. 7˜10) is operated selectively the same way as itdoes in FIGS. 7 and 8, by switching the three poles to link the threereferred to above mic., sp. and inbound video or camera signals betweena selected entry panel 400 via the combination switches or routers 530or 540 of FIGS. 7 and 8 or via the combination routers 550 and 560 ofFIGS. 9 and 10.

For the avoidance of a doubt the switches 420, 533, 544, 551˜554 and561˜563 are shown as electrical contact switches for the purpose ofsimplifying the explanation, however the switching, routing or selectingdevices 420, 533, 544, 551˜554 and 561˜563 can be mechanical contactsbut are preferably semiconductor devices known as routers, selectors,multiplexers and other well known FET or other switching transistors orpackaged ICs available from many semiconductor manufacturers at lowcost.

The poles of the switches 420, 533 or 544 that are termed hereafter“multi routers”, each comprising three or four poles that are operatedsimultaneously. The other switches that are termed hereafter “portselector” comprising the selectors 551˜554 and 561˜563 are fundamentallydifferent. Each selector comprising a common port of a router within-out (I/O) n ports, each port is individually controlled.

Both types the “multi routers” and the “port selector” are selectivelyoperated to connect one of the modules 440 with one of the circuits 100or 190. Each of the switches or routers 420, 533 and 544 are shown inFIGS. 7 and 8 to link a combination of signals comprising microphone,speaker, inbound video and outbound video between one of the circuits100 or 190 and one of the modules 440, or between plurality of circuits100 or 190 with plurality of modules 440.

The four pole switches 544 in FIG. 7 link the mic., sp., the inboundvideo and the outbound video with one of the modules 440, the three poleswitches 533 of the main unit 690 of FIG. 8 do not link or propagateoutbound FM video signal.

FIGS. 9 and 10 show the selective routing of the microphone, speaker,inbound video and the outbound video signals via the routers 551˜554 and561˜563 comprising a common port and n I/O ports and termed “portselector”. FIGS. 9 and 10 clearly show the difference between therouters 551˜554 or 561˜563 of the main units 650 and 670 and theswitches 533 or 544 of the main units 600 and 690 shown in FIGS. 7 and8.

The number of the “multi routers” 533 and 544 per each circuit 100 or190 is equal to the number of the modules 440 embedded into or connectedto the main units 600 and 690 of FIGS. 7 and 8, including the number ofentry panels 400 connected to the main unit via the modules 440.

Only six “port selectors” 561˜563 are used for the n circuits 190 ofeach block 640 and only eight “port selectors” 551˜554 are used for then circuits 100 of each block 630 of the main units 670 and 650 of FIGS.9 and 10 respectively.

The use of the combination router arrays comprising only six or eight“port selectors” to link the n lines 10 of blocks 630 or 640 is madepossible by the introduction of n I/O ports to each “port selector”equal to the number of the circuits 100 or 190 of each block 630 or 640on one side and the number of the modules 440 connected to or embeddedinto the main unit 670 or 650 on the other side. The number of themodules 440 including the number of entry panel 400 connected to themain units 670 and 650 respectively via the modules 440.

Since the number of the modules and the circuits 100 and 190 are finitenumber such as, for example 16, or 32, there are no practical limitationto employ both types of “multi routers” or “port selectors”. Theselection of which is dependent on costs and on the basis of how manymodules 440 and how many connecting lines 10 are needed for a givenbuilding infrastructure.

FIG. 11A shows the electrical block diagrams of the shopping terminal 20connected via a single twisted pair 10 to the main unit 600, 650, 670 or690 that is further connected via internal line 7 to a server 8 that isconnected to a network 5 shown to be a Private Virtual Network (VPN)within the network 5.

The shopping terminal 20 comprising a display and a touch screen 209operated by the control, communication and power circuit 21 comprisingthe CPU 205, a memory 208 termed “terminal memory” and the circuit 200or 290. The circuit 21 further comprising a built-in or an optionalrechargeable battery 230 or external power supply via terminals 231˜232for connecting any well known DC power supply or an AC adaptor forpowering the shopping terminal.

The preferred embodiment includes the rechargeable battery 230, but anyother power supply can be used instead for powering the operating modeonly, the standby mode only or both the standby and the operating mode.Using external power supply eliminates the use of the battery 230 or ofthe entire power feed via the twisted pair 10 detailed above, includingthe power terminals and the power components such the coils 153, 154,256, 257, the rectifier 255, the regulator 253, the charge circuit 231,the capacitors 152, 254, 252 and the terminals 150, 151, 232, 233, 250and 251 of FIGS. 1A and 2A.

FIG. 11A also shows the main router or matrix unit that can be any ofthe main units 600, 650, 670 and 690 shown in FIGS. 7˜10 comprising theCPU or the system controller 535, the switching or routing arrays 530,540, 550 or 560 also shown in FIGS. 7˜10, a memory 536 attached to theCPU 535, the n interfacing modules 440, the power supply 15 for feedingthe VCC to the system and the controlled current via the terminals 150and 151 and the circuits 100 or 190.

The shown block diagram of the system components in FIG. 11A clearlyidentifies the simple structure of the shopping platform interconnectedby a single twisted pair 10 per each shopping terminal 20 including thepowering of at least the standby mode for enabling the updating of theshopping and services data regardless of the power switch status in adwelling or an office or a business unit of a building.

FIG. 11A further shows the main unit connection to a server and to anetwork 5 selected from a group comprising a dedicated network, aprivate network, public networks, the internet, including wirelessnetwork extension 5A and combinations thereof. The wireless networkextension is selected from a group comprising mobile, Bluetooth, WiFiand combinations thereof. The VPN shown inside the network cloud 5 is aVirtual Private Network program tailored for any of the networks 5referred to above including the wireless networks 5A.

The antenna of the WiFi or mobile or Bluetooth network 5A is shownoperated via the VPN cloud, but can be connected directly to the server8 for communicating WiFi or Bluetooth signals, for example communicatingwith a handheld delivery table or a delivery device 820 carried by adeliveryman or service man, or it can be a delivery smart cartincorporating similar delivery unit 860 for acknowledging deliveriesmade to a dweller at his dwelling unit in a building or locally in theneighborhood shown in FIGS. 14 and 15B. Such RF delivery tablet ordevice is also disclosed in the U.S. application Ser. No. 13/599,275(page 39, lines 3˜12).

FIG. 11B shows the simplicity of loading, upgrading and updating thememory 208 termed hereafter “terminal memory” and the recall of thedisplay pages for choosing the e-shopping and e-services via theshopping terminal 20. The shown recall of the display pages into amemory buffer 208A are detailed in the pending U.S. application Ser. No.13/599,275 referred to above.

It becomes clear that the use of the circuits 100, 190, 200 and 290 ofFIGS. 1A˜4B for providing high speed of up to 5.0 Mb FSK data via asingle twisted pair 10 that feeds a controlled DC current calculated tocharge a battery 230 and maintain standby power for the CPU 205 and thememory 208, for receiving and installing fresh loading, upgrading and/orupdating the terminal memory at random or periodically as scheduledwithout disrupting the on-going communications.

It becomes further clear that a twisted pair cable length of over 200 mor 650 ft in a direct pier to pier connection substantially improve thesecurity of the communications propagated via internal lines of ashopping infrastructure of a residential or office tower building orhousing complex and yet provide the speed needed to update the shoppingand services data to large residential complexes instantly at all times.

Moreover, the FSK data is augmented and supported by the high speedbidirectional ASK data for synchronously commanding the differentcircuit in concert with the operation of the system and the signalspropagation. Providing distinct synchronized programs for updating data,shopping and operating command signals via a single twisted pair 10.

Even though it is advantageous to use the single twisted pair 10 forpropagating all the referred to above signals including the constantcurrent feed, it is similarly possible to use for the pier to pierconnections a standard CAT5 cable comprising four twisted pairs, eachpropagating one or two of the signals such as one pair for bidirectionalFSK, one pair for bidirectional ASK, one pair for audio and the FMmodulated video and the fourth pair for feeding DC power, in which casethe power does not need to be controlled current feed, instead it can bea regulated voltage feed.

The use of the high speed FSK data with carrier frequency of 10˜20 MHzwill enable to propagate the FSK signal for well over 200 m or 650 ft.The power feed can also be a power feed for powering the circuit 200 or290 and for charging the rechargeable battery with trickle charge of,for example, 50 mA. Therefore for smaller residential buildings such aswith 8 or 16 or 20 apartments where the lower installing cost advantagesof the non-polar single twisted pair are not meaningful, it is possibleto install standard CAT5 cable instead of the single twisted pair eventhough the pier to pier wiring will be far more complex to install.

It should be noted that the above references suggesting which twistedpair of the CAT5 can propagate which given signal or signals is a matterof choice and that the signal or signals are preferably propagated alongwith the DC power feed or without power feed via the four twisted pairs.Further, as a matter of choice the CAT5 cable can be used partially,such as using two pairs or three pairs instead of the one twisted pair,which is the preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Similarly the video signal propagation from an entry panel of a buildingor of an access control can be propagated and routed or switched via acoax cable and the audio can be propagated via shielded wires or cables.In such setup the audio transformers 142 and 242 of FIGS. 1 and 4 willnot be necessary, and if video signals are propagated via the coax cablethe FM modulator of the modulate/demodulate 102 the selector 104/204will be replaced by video routers.

Similarly the shopping terminals circuits of the television receivers702 of FIG. 12 and the different television boxes such as the set-topbox 703 and e-shopping box 705 of FIG. 13 may be connected to a networkof antenna cables or to a cable TV distribution via fiber optic cables,multi core cables and other special dedicated cables.

FIG. 12 shows a video interphone system 700 of a building comprising nentry panels 400, n video interphone monitors 701-1˜701-n including theshopping circuit 20 of FIGS. 11A and 11B, n television receivers702-1˜702-n including the shopping circuit 20 of FIGS. 11A and 11B andthe well known video interphone circuits, similar to the circuits usedfor the video interphones 701. Each of the video interphone monitors 701and of the television receiver 702 are connected via a single twistedpair 10 to the main router or matrix unit 600, 650, 670 or 690.

The main router or matrix unit further shown to be connected to a server8 via the system CPU 535 and via an interconnecting line 7 including anetwork interfacing line 6 to a network 5.

The network 5 comprising a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connected tothe shown service and merchandise providers selected from e-conciergecenter 30, e-shop or shops 31, e-service or services 32, e-bank orcredit facility 33, emergency services 34, alarm monitoring and support35 and power consumption reporting and control by a smart grid 36.

The shown service and merchandise as well as other referred to on-lineproviders and institutions are a token or a summary of the many and thevariety of the e-shopping and e-services providers and facilities thatcan be introduced and connected via the network 5 and the system server8 to the infrastructure of a building comprising the internalcommunication lines, using the circuits 100, 190, 200 and 290 describedabove.

Though not shown in the drawings, it is obviously clear that the server8 can be linked to a computing cloud provider for storing and updatingthe providers programs, as tailored to each individual dweller or tenantof a building as further disclosed in the reference US patents andpending applications.

Further details covering the reference to power consumption reportingand control via a smart grid 36 are provided in the U.S. Pat. Nos.7,639,907, 7,649,727, 7,864,500, 7,937,647, 8,041,221, 8,148,921,8,170,722, 8,175,463, 8,269,376, 8,331,794, 8,331,795, 8,340,527,8,344,668, 8,384,249, 8,441,824, 8,442,792 and U.S. patent applicationSer. Nos. 13/349,939 and 13/599,275.

FIG. 13 shows a dedicated e-shopping infrastructure similar to theinfrastructure shown in FIG. 12 without the entry panels 400 and thevideo interphone monitor 701. Instead the shopping circuit 20 and thecircuit 200 or 290 are included in a set-top box 703 connecting thecable TV network 801 via the distributor 802 to the cable television704.

The shopping circuit 20 is also included in a shopping box 705 thatincludes the circuit 200 or 290. The shopping box 705 connects aterrestrial television set 706 and to an antenna 803 via an antennadistributor 804. Also shown is a dedicated shopping terminal 707 thatincludes the circuit 200 or 290.

Each of the referred to above n circuits 200 or 290 is connected to thecircuits 100 or 190 of the main unit 600, 650, 670 or 690 via a singletwisted pair 10-1, 10-2 and 10-n via the terminals 10A, 10B, 11A and 11Breferred and shown also in FIGS. 1A˜B, 2A˜B, 3A˜B and 4A˜B. Thedifference is the elimination of the entry panels and the mic., sp. andinbound video or camera signals shown or referred to in FIG. 12.

Yet even though the analog signals are not shown, as explained above,the mic., sp. and inbound camera signals can be propagated in a digitalform by the bidirectional FSK signals via the system controller 535 andit is possible to enter the building via a well known access controlsystem (not shown) and communicate from the apartments or offices withthe access control via the mic. 711 shown included in the set-top box703, the e-shopping box 705 and the dedicated shopping terminal 707.

The speaker (not shown but is included) in the CATV 704, the terrestrialTV 706 and a speaker 712 that is shown in the dedicated shoppingterminal 707. The digital camera for generating digital video signal isnot shown, but it is a well known camera used with access control of abuilding.

By such arrangement the system shown in FIG. 13 will have all thefunction of the system shown in FIG. 12 and moreover, it expands therange of the display and communication devices that can provide thee-shopping of the present invention to include the many differentset-top boxes and/or converter boxes, including antenna and cable TVboxes and literally any type of TV set, or any type of shopping box suchas the shown box 705.

The system server 8 connects to the system controller 535 via line 7 andto the network via the line 6, the same way as shown in FIGS. 11 and 12and further includes the wireless antenna 5A for communicating withwired and wireless network such as WiFi, Bluetooth and/or mobile,particularly with delivery personnel, operating from an embeddeddelivery warehouse within the building or the complex.

An embedded delivery station within a building or within a neighborhoodprovides a clear unambiguous solution to the persisting problems anddifficulties affecting the grocery and fresh or cooked food e-shopping.The many attempts by large supermarket to create a more efficientdelivery method and system particularly for fresh food, and othergroceries did not succeed, as the fast delivery within short time, forexample within 30 minutes, is completely out of reach.

The solution for such fast deliveries via an embedded e-shoppingdelivery station or warehouse is recited in the U.S. application Ser.No. 13/599,275 in page 39, lines 3˜12. Yet a delivery station embeddedinto a building basement, or into an apartment of a building by itself,cannot provide fast deliveries, unless the entire concept of e-shoppingis modified to enable a fast and simple processing and logistics,leading to a fast delivery from within the building, or complex, or theneighborhood.

FIG. 14 shows the infrastructure within a building 70 with a dweller 800completing the order on the basis of an updated program stored into theterminal memory 208 via the recalled display pages 46˜49 and the memorybuffer 208A shown in FIG. 11B onto the display, operate and touch screen209 of a shopping terminal circuit 20 shown also as a dedicated shoppingterminal 207 in FIG. 13.

During the choosing process and all the way through the completion ofthe order the shopping terminal is operated in a shopping mode and it isnot communicating on line. The shopping and ordering are completed onthe basis of the updated program and content stored in the terminalmemory 208 of the shopping terminal itself.

The updating is a continuous, random and/or a scheduled stream forkeeping the products, their prices, availability and deliveryparticulars updated at all times. Therefore, the choosing and theordering process is based on actual available products at the statedprices and in stock for delivery as provided by the updated data.

With the choosing of products, delivery, billing particulars and paymentcompleted, the dweller 800 sends the completed order, shown as sentorder 802 via the line 10 to the main unit 600, 650, 670 or 690. The CPU535 of the main unit shown in FIGS. 12 and 13 processes the order andfeed an interfaced signals 804 detailing said order via the interfacingmodule 440 and line 7 to the system server 8. The system serverpropagates data pertaining the received order 806 with the data beingadapted or interfaced to the given network 5 protocols via line 6 andvia the network 5 shown as VPN, to the e-concierge center 30.

The e-concierge center 30 is the entity registering, operating andcontrolling the closed circuit e-shopping and e-services of the presentinvention and all the transactions such as 808 within the VPN arerecorded and validated by the e-concierge center 30. With the ordervalidated it is forwarded to the e Bank and Credit 33 for paymentprocessing.

As the e-shopping of the present invention is operating in a closedcircuit in a Virtual Private Network, all the dwellers and providers areall registered clients and suppliers, by the e-concierge center 30,including all the financial institutions such as banks, credit cards,billing and credit facilities. By such arrangement the dwellers need notidentify themselves as their location, the supply shops or the deliverystations are all registered and recorded. This setup makes the paymenttransaction simple and the e/Bank/Credit 33 validates the payment anddirects the validated order and payment 810 to the e-shop 31.

Further, the shown system server 8 can be located inside or within thebuilding 70 of FIG. 14, but it can be a server incorporated in the wellknown cloud computing services along with the servers of the otherentities participating in the e-shopping program, such that thetransaction moving in stages, will all move within the super speed ofthe cloud computing of today and of the future, to complete the orderprocessing and payment in a fraction of a second.

With the payment validated, the original order 802 is now propagated,shown as 812, to the e-shopping delivery station 62 located in thebasement B1 72 of the building 70 from the e-shop server 31. Thisprompts the deliveryman to load the cart 66 with the ordered groceries68 and proceed to the elevator 71 to deliver promptly the ordered goodsto the dweller 800 at hers or his apartment inside the building.

To complete the cycle, the dweller keys a pre-assigned code into awireless delivery tablet 820, communicating via WiFi, or Bluetoothantenna 5A of the server 8 or via the shown antenna 5A of the shoppingterminal through which the order was originated.

This closes the order and the payment by the e-Bank 32 crediting thee-shop 31 and debiting the dweller 800. The e-shop will automaticallyadjust the stock count and/or instruct a central warehouse to replacethe sold goods during the next planned delivery to the delivery station62 of the building 70, or as the case may be order an immediatedelivery, because for example, the sold goods depleted the entire stockor reduced the stock to below a minimum level as set.

The referenced above to the deliveryman loading the cart 66 with theordered groceries 68 may not be free from difficulties. For example thedeliveryman 809 may pick up a pack of lemons instead of a pack oforanges and the error is discovered while delivering the groceries tothe dweller 800. Such error causes substantial irritation, waste of timeand delays, because the deliveryman must return to the delivery station,replace the packs and re-deliver the correct merchandise, which is timeconsuming, causes delay throughout and is costly. To avoid such errorsthe pick-up and delivery logistics must be made accurate, efficient witherror prevention.

Another item of importance is the receiving of the order by thedeliveryman. A paper print out of a received order or several ordersmandate a physical handling of papers that may be miss-noticed,mishandled and/or violation of the sequence principle of first orderreceived is the first to be processed.

For this reason, and as will be explained later, small delivery stationscan operate with orders received directly through the wireless deliverytablet 820 shown in FIGS. 14 and 15A, but larger delivery stationspreferably use an automated smart carts 850 shown in FIG. 15B.

The functions and features of both the delivery tablet 820 and the smartcart 850 can be similar or same, wherein the delivery tablet 820comprising a CPU and a memory (not shown), a display and operate screen822, operating keys 821, and selectable modules comprising barcodereader 823, front and rear cameras 824/825, RFID reader and antenna 827,RF transceiver and antenna 828 and order/delivery status indicator 826.The comparable items of the smart cart 850 are a CPU and a memory (notshown), the display and operate screen 862, operating keys 861 and themodules comprising barcode reader 863, front and rear cameras 864/865,RFID reader and antenna 867, RF transceiver and antenna 868 andorder/delivery status indicator 866.

The procedure and logistics involved include the receiving of the ordervia the RF transceiver and antenna, be it WiFi, Bluetooth or otherwireless RF signals and frequencies, with the order details displayed onthe screen 822 or 862, and the status indicator 826 or 866 indicates, bythe color of the status indicator or by such as flashing LEDs, thatorder is received and awaiting pick-up and delivery.

The deliveryman 809 picks up the delivery tablet 820 or the smart cart860. For merchandise identified by barcode the deliveryman scans eachitem removed from its storage be it from shelf, bin or rack shown inFIG. 15C, or from a refrigerator (not shown) and scan the product viathe barcode reader 823 or 863 before placing it into the smart cart 850or into non-intelligent cart 66 of FIG. 14 or basket. For itemsidentified by RFID tag the products can be scanned by the RFID readerantenna 827 of the delivery tablet 820, or automatically by simplyplacing the picked up item into the cart storing space 852.

The RFID antenna 867 surrounds the upper rim of the smart cart 850 andwill automatically detect the passing RFID tag of the product placedinto the cart. Every time the barcode scanner or the RFID readeridentify the product as one of the ordered merchandise, the picked-upproduct displayed on the screen 822 and 862 will change its status andindication from “on order” to “picked up”.

An attempt to pick up and scan or place a non-ordered product will berejected with a warning indication that a wrong product is being pickedup and should not be placed in the cart or delivered. With the picked upproducts or merchandise completed for a given order, the indicator willchange its indication, such as its color to indicate waiting fordelivery status, prompting the deliveryman to proceed and deliver theordered products to the dweller.

Once the physical delivery take place each item is scanned for removalconfirmation from the smart cart 850 or from the non-intelligent cartshown as 66 in FIG. 14 by the delivery tablet 820 and each item in thelisted order on display will indicate product or merchandise removed.With all the items on order are delivered the dweller 800 of FIG. 14will be keying a delivery completed pre-assigned code for deliverycompleted and the order will be closed, payment will be processed andthe e-provider stock will be adjusted as referred to above.

The cameras 824/825 and 864/865 are introduced for taking pictures andrecording the receiving dweller for creating a temporary filescontaining proof of the recipient at the time of delivery.

Another important item is the handling of simultaneously receiveddelivery orders, be it small or large delivery station, each suchstation is preferably provided with plurality of delivery tablets 820and/or smart carts 850 all programmed to operate in a sequencecommensurate with the first order received is first to be processed(First in First out). If more than one deliveryman is in the station,the orders in the sequence received will be processed simultaneously.Attempt to process an order in violation of the receiving sequence asprogrammed cannot be processed and an indication of error will soundand/or displayed.

It should be noted that the smart cart 850 is shown in a square shape,which is a fit shape for moving merchandise inside elevators. Thefolding table 853, the handle 851 and the delivery unit 860 areillustrated not to size and/or precise shape, but simply to provide animage of the smart cart 850.

The last important item is the power source for the smart cart 850 andfor the delivery tablet 820. The preferred embodiment uses arechargeable batteries (not shown) that are being charged continuouslywhenever the smart cart 850 or the delivery tablet 820 are not in useand are attached or plugged to assigned chargers (not shown) for thecarts in their parking place and to the delivery tablet onto a stand(not shown).

FIG. 15C shows an illustrated automated rack 880 for storing groceriesas an example of merchandise. Not all the bins shown are identical, forexample the bread bin 881-1 is covered by a front glass. Similar coversare provided for the bins 881-2 and 881-3 containing fruits.

Other bins 882-1˜882-6 contain solid packages such as bottles, cans,jars or carton boxes and do not require cover protection.

Each of the bins however includes an hanging or attached tablet 870 foridentifying the product, the stock figure and order in progresscomprising display 872 enhanced by group of indicators 876 foridentifying the orders in process, the ordering dweller and otherparticulars, such as quantity, price and time of delivery when thedeliveryman is not nearby the rack, as an example. Each bin is furtherprovided with barcode reader 873, RFID reader 877 and RF transceiver andantenna 878 for communicating with the delivery station server 65 ofFIG. 14 and/or with the delivery tablet 820, delivery unit 860, or withthe delivery station server 65 of FIG. 14.

The built-in or attached by hanging or otherwise attached tablet 870further comprising a CPU and a memory (not shown), operating keys and/ortouch screen for transacting fresh stocks, returned merchandise, remove,enter, adjust stock levels and any other operating mode needed to handlethe stock in the bins, shelves, pallets, stands, carts, basket,containers or other storages such as refrigerated, freeze or heat binsand/or heaters for cooked food and similar.

With the support of the smart shelves or the automated racks 880, orbins, or cabinets and other smart storage facilities, including thedelivery tablets 820 and the delivery unit 860 all communicating witheach other and with the server 65 of the delivery station and with theshopping terminals at the ordering dweller site, the delivery process issubstantially upgraded with error prevention, efficiency and to bedelivered on time.

The shown closed circuit e-commerce entity of the VPN network 5 in FIG.14 comprises the building server 8, the e-concierge center 30 which isthe server controlling the closed circuit e-commerce entity, the e-bankand credit 33 and the e-shop 31. The closed circuit e-commerce of FIG.14 represents a smaller closed circuit e-shopping entity than the shownentity of FIGS. 12 and 13. It is obvious that the other providersincluding services 32, shops 31, financial 30, emergency 34 and/or thepower consumption reporting 36 and/or many other service and merchandiseproviders could be added to enlarge the closed circuit e-commerce intomany fields of commerce, life style and support.

On the other hand, not all systems need to be large and cover everyaspect of services and merchandise. Some system may be designed andcreated for a specific e-commerce activity. For example a grocery orpharmacy or office supply provider may operate a single warehouse unitfor a large residential or office building via one or two deliverystations for prompt deliveries within a building or a neighborhood. Suchprovider management can manage the specific closed circuit e-commerceand replace the shown e-concierge center 30.

Accordingly for specific e-commerce activity, such as grocery, thee-concierge center may not be needed and is not used. Similarly, thenetwork 5 can be a dedicated network 5 instead of the VPN shown in FIG.14. Moreover for such specific or limited operation the provider canhandle management, credit and payment and may not need the bank/creditprovider 33 which will not be included in the closed circuit e-commerceentity.

This leaves only two servers 8 and 31 operating via a dedicated orprivate network 5 that forms a specific e-commerce entity, that thoughis small or limited in selection, it can effectively and efficientlyoperate with the circuits and processes disclosed above.

It should be understood, of course, that the foregoing disclosurerelates to only a preferred embodiment of the invention and that it isintended to cover all changes and modifications of the example of theinvention herein chosen for the purpose of the disclosure, whichmodifications do not constitute departures from the spirit and scope ofthe invention.

What is claimed is:
 1. A delivery device for verifying and controlling adelivery of at least one of merchandise and service item included in anorder received by at least one e-provider from at least one dweller of afirst building without error, said item is stored in a storage facilityof a delivery station located in a space within one of said firstbuilding and distant including at least one of a station serverconnected to said at least one e-provider server via a network and astorage device for controlling at least one said storage facilityselected from a group comprising racks, shelves, bins, cabinets,pallets, stands, carts, baskets, containers, refrigerators, freezers,warmers, coolers and combinations thereof; said delivery device selectedfrom a group comprising a delivery tablet, a smart cart, a smart basketand combinations thereof comprising a CPU, a memory, at least one ofoperating keys and touch icons, at least one of a display screen andindicators for identifying at least one of particulars and statusespertaining to at least one of said stored item in said facility, saidorder and said dweller, said device modules selected from a groupcomprising barcode reader, RFID reader, a camera, a transceiver andcombinations thereof for providing error-free pickup, gathering andcommunicating said delivery; and said delivery device communicates withat least one of said storage device and said station server updates anddetails of the gathering and the delivering processes in real time,including one of canceling the order and acknowledging the deliveringvia said network.
 2. The delivery device according to claim 1, whereinsaid station server is at least one of a stand-alone and a cloudcomputing for communicating with said e-provider server via said networkselected from a group comprising a private network, a dedicated network,a public network, the internet, a Virtual Private Network (VPN) andcombinations thereof by propagating signals selected from a groupcomprising electrical signals, RF signals, optical signals andcombinations thereof; and the signals propagated between said deliverydevice and said station server, said delivery device and said storagedevices and between said storage devices and said station server areselected from a group comprising electrical signals, RF signals, RFIDsignals, optical signals and combinations thereof.
 3. The deliverydevice according to claim 1, wherein said gathering and deliveringprocesses further including a process for amending said order andacknowledging a delivery of the amended order.
 4. The delivery deviceaccording to claim 1, wherein a picture of a dweller receiving saiddelivery is taken by said camera for verifying said delivering andrecord keeping in a memory.
 5. The delivery device according to claim 1,wherein a payment for said delivering is executed by one of a centralentity and an e-payment provider selected from a group comprising ane-credit provider, an e-credit card provider, an e-bank provider, ane-financing provider, an e-clearing provider and combinations thereofupon receiving said acknowledging.
 6. The delivery device according toclaim 1, wherein a data pertaining the pickup of said item remains datain transition awaiting one of receiving delivery acknowledgement and acancellation including one of an amendment to said order andacknowledgement of the amended delivery by said dweller.
 7. The deliverydevice according to claim 1, wherein said particulars comprising thestored item description including at least one of specifics and packagescontaining the stored item, said specifics are selected from a groupcomprising dimensions, volume, weight, quantity, package variation,multi packages, package structure, package size, package volume, packageweight, color, single item price, multi items price, single packageprice, multi packages price, reference dates, expiry date andcombination thereof; Said statuses pertaining to said stored item areselected from a group comprising minimum quantity, max quantity, currentstock, stock alert, out of stock, quantity limit per delivery, replenishschedule, next replenish time and date, at least one of present priceand expiration, at least one of present promotion and expiration, atleast one of present quantity discount and expiration, stable item,seasonal item, stable price, seasonable price, short time item, shorttime promotion and combinations thereof.
 8. The delivery deviceaccording to claim 1, wherein at least one said storage device isattached to at least one of said storage facility for at least one ofdisplaying and indicating data and statuses selected from a groupcomprising the stored item, expiry date, price, quantity, basic stockquantity, minimum stock quantity, out of stock, order received, quantityon order, the ordering apartment particulars, pickup status, regulardelivery, urgent delivery, requested delivery time and combinationsthereof; and wherein at least one of said storage display screen andindicators identify the status and particulars pertaining to a receivedorder for processing the pickup and said gathering by sweeping eachpicked up item via at least one of said RFID and barcode reader forrecording the pickup item and adjusting the stock of said given storagedevice including the data pertaining to the picked up item recorded insaid delivery device and said station server.
 9. The delivery deviceaccording to claim 1, is structured to aid the physical delivery and theverification processes of the delivered items by a carry and deliversupport selected from a group comprising a carry basket, wheels, carrystraps, carry belts, a structured fit cart for elevator, other cartstructures, carts with a surrounding RFID antenna, baskets with asurrounding RFID read antenna, adjustable barcode readers, foldingtable, folding covers and combinations thereof.
 10. The delivery deviceaccording to claim 1, wherein said space within said first building isselected from a group comprising a basement, an entrance, a lobby, agiven floor, a room, an apartment, a corridor, a mezzanine, a balcony, aroof and combinations thereof; said space within said distant is atleast one of said space within a second building and areas outside saidfirst building selected from a group comprising a garden, a yard, publicarea, private area, parking area, a street, a park, a shopping mall,within a given neighborhood, within a given ward, within a givendistrict, within a given town, within a given city, within a state,outside the state, within a country, outside the country andcombinations thereof; and wherein said delivery station is designed intoa structure selected from a group comprising a store, a warehouse, aworkshop, a club, an office, a box office, a kitchen, a depot, a plant,a clinic, an hospital, a gym, a campus, a library and combinationsthereof.
 11. The delivery device according to claim 1, wherein saiddweller transmits said order to said e-provider server from a shoppingterminal selected from a group comprising a video interphone monitor, atelevision receiver, a cable television receiver, a terrestrialtelevision receiver, a set-top box, a cable television box, a televisionconverter box, a dedicated shopping box, a dedicated shopping terminaland combinations thereof via a building server and via at least one of acentral entity server and an e-payment server.
 12. A method fordelivering at least one of merchandise and service item included in anorder received by at least one e-provider from at least one dweller of afirst building without error, said item is stored in a storage facilityof a delivery station located in a space within one of said firstbuilding and distant including at least one of station server connectedto said at least one e-provider server via a network, a delivery deviceand a storage device for controlling at least one storage facilityselected from a group comprising racks, shelves, bins, cabinets,pallets, stands, carts, baskets, containers, refrigerators, freezers,warmers, coolers and combinations thereof; said delivery device selectedfrom a group comprising a delivery tablet, a smart cart, a smart basketand combinations thereof comprising a CPU, a memory, at least one ofoperating keys and touch icons, at least one of a display screen andindicators for identifying at least one of particulars and statusespertaining to at least one of said stored item in said facility, saidorder and said dweller, said delivery device further including modulesselected from a group comprising barcode reader, RFID reader, a camera,a transceiver and combinations thereof for verifying the gathering andcommunicating said delivery, said method comprising the steps of: a.receiving an order for at least one item from said dweller via saidnetwork and said e-provider server; b. displaying said order by saidstation server and by at least one of said display screen andindicators; c. gathering said at least one item via said delivery devicewithout error by sweeping said item through at least one of said barcodereader and RFID reader; d. delivering the gathered said at least oneitem to said dweller at his place; and e. obtaining an acknowledgementby said dweller via one of said network and said delivery device. 13.The method according to claim 12, wherein said station server is atleast one of a stand-alone and a cloud computing for communicating withsaid e-provider server via said network selected from a group comprisinga private network, a dedicated network, a public network, the internet,a Virtual Private Network (VPN) and combinations thereof by propagatingsignals selected from a group comprising electrical signals, RF signals,optical signals and combinations thereof; and the signals propagatedbetween said delivery device and said station server, said deliverydevices and said storage devices and between said storage device andsaid station server are selected from a group comprising electricalsignals, RF signals, RFID signals, optical signals and combinationsthereof.
 14. The method according to claim 12, wherein said gatheringand delivering processes further including a process for amending saidorder and acknowledging a delivery of the amended order.
 15. The methodaccording to claim 12, wherein a picture of a dweller receiving saiddelivery is taken by said camera for said verifying and record keepingin a memory.
 16. The method according to claim 12, wherein a payment forsaid delivering is executed by one of a central entity and an e-paymentprovider selected from a group comprising an e-credit provider, ane-credit card provider, an e-bank provider, an e-financing provider, ane-clearing provider and combinations thereof upon receiving saidacknowledging.
 17. The method according to claim 12, wherein a datapertaining the pickup of said item remains data in transition awaitingone of receiving delivery acknowledgement and a cancellation includingone of an amendment to said order and acknowledgement of the amendeddelivery by said dweller.
 18. The method according to claim 12, whereinsaid particulars comprising the stored item description including atleast one of specifics and packages containing the stored item, saidspecifics are selected from a group comprising dimensions, volume,weight, quantity, package variation, multi packages, package structure,package size, package volume, package weight, color, single item price,multi items price, single package price, multi packages price, referencedates, expiry date and combination thereof; Said statuses pertaining tosaid stored item are selected from a group comprising minimum quantity,max quantity, current stock, stock alert, out of stock, quantity limitper delivery, replenish schedule, next replenish time and date, at leastone of present price and expiration, at least one of present promotionand expiration, at least one of present quantity discount andexpiration, stable item, seasonal item, stable price, seasonable price,short time item, short time promotion and combinations thereof.
 19. Themethod according to claim 12, wherein at least one said storage deviceis attached to at least one of said storage facility for at least one ofdisplaying and indicating data and statuses selected from a groupcomprising the stored item, expiry date, price, quantity, basic stockquantity, minimum stock quantity, out of stock, order received, quantityon order, the ordering apartment particulars, pickup status, regulardelivery, urgent delivery, requested delivery time and combinationsthereof; and wherein at least one of said storage display screen andindicators identify the status and particulars pertaining to a receivedorder for processing the pickup and said gathering by sweeping eachpicked up item via at least one of said RFID and barcode reader forrecording the pickup item and adjusting the stock of said given storagedevice including the data pertaining to the picked up item recorded insaid delivery device and said station server.
 20. The method accordingto claim 12, wherein said delivery device is structured to aid thephysical delivery and the verification processes of the delivered itemsby a carry and deliver support selected from a group comprising a carrybasket, wheels, carry straps, carry belts, a structured fit cart forelevator, other cart structures, carts with a surrounding RFID antenna,baskets with a surrounding RFID read antenna, adjustable barcodereaders, folding table, folding covers and combinations thereof.
 21. Themethod according to claim 12, wherein said space within said firstbuilding is selected from a group comprising a basement, an entrance, alobby, a given floor, a room, an apartment, a corridor, a mezzanine, abalcony, a roof and combinations thereof; said space within said distantis at least one of said space within a second building and areas outsidesaid first building selected from a group comprising a garden, a yard,public area, private area, parking area, a street, a park, a shoppingmall, within a given neighborhood, within a given ward, within a givendistrict, within a given town, within a given city, within a state,outside the state, within a country, outside the country andcombinations thereof; and wherein said delivery station is designed intoa structure selected from a group comprising a store, a warehouse, aworkshop, a club, an office, a box office, a kitchen, a depot, a plant,a clinic, an hospital, a gym, a campus, a library and combinationsthereof.
 22. The method according to claim 12, wherein said dwellertransmits said order to said e-provider server from a shopping terminalselected from a group comprising a video interphone monitor, atelevision receiver, a cable television receiver, a terrestrialtelevision receiver, a set-top box, a cable television box, a televisionconverter box, a dedicated shopping box, a dedicated shopping terminaland combinations thereof via a building server and via at least one of acentral entity server and an e-payment server.